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Bostonized

Bostonized is the simple past and past participle of Bostonize.

Meaning of Bostonize

Verb

Bostonize (third-person singular simple present Bostonizes, present participle Bostonizing, simple past and past participle Bostonized)

  1. (transitive) To make Bostonian; to adapt to the norms or culture of Boston.
    • His purpose was evidently to Americanize, or at least Bostonize, the realism he had observed in Russian and French literature by attending only to the more commonplace in character and event.1972, Grant Cochran Knight, American literature and culture, page 374

Questions about Bostonized

What is Bostonized the simple past and past participle of?
Bostonized is the simple past and past participle of Bostonize.

Words near Bostonized in the dictionary

  1. Bostonians
  2. bostonite
  3. Bostonites
  4. Bostonization
  5. Bostonize
  6. Bostonized
  7. Bostonizes
  8. Bostonizing
  9. Bostons
  10. bostoon
  11. bostoons

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