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Bostonizing

Bostonizing is the present participle and gerund 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 Bostonizing

What is Bostonizing the present participle and gerund of?
Bostonizing is the present participle and gerund of Bostonize.

Words near Bostonizing in the dictionary

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

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