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anglicising

anglicising is the present participle and gerund of anglicise.

Meaning of anglicise

Verb

anglicise (third-person singular simple present anglicises, present participle anglicising, simple past and past participle anglicised)

  1. (transitive) To make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
    • Someone who is translating into English a German novel, the hero of which is named Heinrich, will leave the name as it is; he will not Anglicize it into Henry.1970, W. H. Auden, A Certain World, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 267
  2. (transitive) To dub or translate into English.
  3. (intransitive) To become English.

Verb capitalized: Anglicising

Anglicising

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of Anglicise
    • Mr. J. A. B. Hamilton adds that there is little consistency in the Anglicising of Welsh nomenclature, as in the use of "v" in place of the Welsh "f"; note for example the names Caernarvon and Afon Wen; […].1945 September and October, “Notes and News: "Cilgerran" or "Kilgerran"?”, in Railway Magazine, page 303

Forms of anglicising

alternative formanglicizing

Questions about anglicising

What is anglicising the present participle and gerund of?
Anglicising is the present participle and gerund of anglicise.
What part of speech is anglicising?
Anglicising is a verb.

Words near anglicising in the dictionary

  1. anglicisation
  2. anglicisations
  3. anglicise
  4. anglicised
  5. anglicises
  6. anglicising
  7. anglicism
  8. anglicisms
  9. Anglicist
  10. Anglicists
  11. Anglicity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anglicising (page history and authors); Anglicising (page history and authors); anglicise (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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