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CREOLIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creolize mean? 

CREOLIZE (verb)
  The verb CREOLIZE has 1 sense:

1. develop into a creoleplay

  Familiarity information: CREOLIZE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CREOLIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they creolize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it creolizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: creolized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: creolized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: creolizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Develop into a creole

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

pidgins often creolize

Hypernyms (to "creolize" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

creole (a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages)


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