Meaning of Germanize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To give a German character to (something).
   transitive
2. To adopt German customs or culture.
   intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“to Germanize a province, a language, or a society”

“Why should Pennsylvania […] become⟳ a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt⟳ our language or customs, any more than they can acquire⟳ our complexion?”

“In the preceding centuries the Ashkenazic Synagogue song had been Germanized to a degree that jeopardized not only its distinctive Jewishness but its very existence.”

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