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Africanise

Africanise is the alternative form of Africanize.

Meaning of Africanize

Verb

Africanize (third-person singular simple present Africanizes, present participle Africanizing, simple past and past participle Africanized)

  1. (US, transitive) To make African.

Forms of Africanise

third-person singular presentAfricanises
present participleAfricanising
past participleAfricanised
pastAfricanised

Origin of Africanise

From African + -ise.

Questions about Africanise

What is Africanise the alternative form of?
Africanise is the alternative form of Africanize.

Words near Africanise in the dictionary

  1. Africanfuturisms
  2. Africanfuturist
  3. Africanfuturists
  4. Africanis
  5. Africanisation
  6. Africanise
  7. Africanised
  8. Africanises
  9. Africanish
  10. Africanising
  11. Africanism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Africanise (page history and authors); Africanize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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