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OCCIDENTALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occidentalize mean? 

OCCIDENTALIZE (verb)
  The verb OCCIDENTALIZE has 1 sense:

1. make western in characterplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


OCCIDENTALIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they occidentalize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it occidentalizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: occidentalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: occidentalized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: occidentalizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make western in character

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

occidentalise; occidentalize; westernise; westernize

Context example:

The country was Westernized after it opened up

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Antonym:

orientalize (make oriental in character)


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