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foreignized

foreignized is the simple past and past participle of foreignize.

Meaning of foreignize

Verb

foreignize (third-person singular simple present foreignizes, present participle foreignizing, simple past and past participle foreignized)

  1. (transitive) To make foreign.
    • Politicians warned that unrestricted immigration would foreignize the country.
  2. (transitive) To retain foreign elements in a story that might be unfamiliar to readers of the translated text.
    Antonyms:
    domesticate

Questions about foreignized

What is foreignized the simple past and past participle of?
Foreignized is the simple past and past participle of foreignize.

Words near foreignized in the dictionary

  1. foreignisms
  2. foreignist
  3. foreignists
  4. foreignization
  5. foreignize
  6. foreignized
  7. foreignizer
  8. foreignizers
  9. foreignizes
  10. foreignizing
  11. foreignly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foreignized (page history and authors); foreignize (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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