Frenchize

Verb

Frenchize (third-person singular simple present Frenchizes, present participle Frenchizing, simple past and past participle Frenchized)

1. To make or become more French; to make or become more like France, the French language, or French-speaking people.
   • But I shall not twist the English language out of all shape and comeliness; I shall not Germanize and Frenchize and Italianize; I shall express my ideas in the simplest possible words; I shall always choose the Saxon rather than the Norman; I shall endavor to write so that "he who runs may read."1849 April, Park Benjamin, “The Recluse. No. I”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume 34, number 4
   • The French-Canadian does not Frenchize. In Canada, for three centuries, he has been hemmed in by English and Scotch colonists and he has never Frenchized any one. He comes from a stock to whom the thought is repugnant of making French out of any less fine material.1926, Educational Administration & Supervision - Volume 12, page 231

   Synonyms:

   gallicize