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bolshevise

bolshevise is the alternative form of bolshevize.

Meaning of bolshevize

Verb

bolshevize (third-person singular simple present bolshevizes, present participle bolshevizing, simple past and past participle bolshevized)

  1. (transitive) To make Bolshevik.
    • Moscow doubtless wants to make trouble for the Western Powers so far as she can without losing their recognition or encouraging actual hostility. She wants peace and trade and an opportunity for internal economic reconstruction above everything just now. It seems doubtful whether she expects to...1927 May, Quincy Wright, “Bolshevist Influences in China”, in Current History, volume XXVI, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 302, column 2

Forms of bolshevise

third-person singular presentbolshevises
present participlebolshevising
past participlebolshevised
pastbolshevised

Questions about bolshevise

What is bolshevise the alternative form of?
Bolshevise is the alternative form of bolshevize.

Words near bolshevise in the dictionary

  1. bolshevik
  2. bolsheviki
  3. Bolshevikian
  4. Bolshevikism
  5. bolsheviks
  6. bolshevise
  7. bolshevised
  8. bolshevises
  9. bolshevising
  10. bolshevism
  11. bolshevisms

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