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Frenchizing

Frenchizing is the present participle and gerund of Frenchize.

Meaning of 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
    Synonyms:
    gallicize

Questions about Frenchizing

What is Frenchizing the present participle and gerund of?
Frenchizing is the present participle and gerund of Frenchize.

Words near Frenchizing in the dictionary

  1. Frenchisms
  2. Frenchization
  3. Frenchize
  4. Frenchized
  5. Frenchizes
  6. Frenchizing
  7. frenchkiss
  8. Frenchless
  9. Frenchlike
  10. Frenchly
  11. Frenchman

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