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Greekized

Greekized is the simple past and past participle of Greekize.

Meaning of Greekize

Verb

Greekize (third-person singular simple present Greekizes, present participle Greekizing, simple past and past participle Greekized)

  1. To make Greek or Greek-like;
    • The earliest writers of France had modelled their taste by the Greek: Jodelle, Ronsard, Du Bartas, and others, imbued with Attic literature, Greekized the French idiom by their compounds, their novel terms, and their sonorous periphrases.1865, Isaac Disraeli, Amenities of Literature
    Synonyms:
    Greekify, Hellenize
  2. To behave and speak like a Greek.
    • 'Greekize' as much as you like, Fea concluded; become a new Pausanias, Plutarch or Strabo.2000, Ronald T. Ridley, The Pope's archaeologist: the life and times of Carlo Fea, page 215
    Synonyms:
    Hellenize

Questions about Greekized

What is Greekized the simple past and past participle of?
Greekized is the simple past and past participle of Greekize.

Words near Greekized in the dictionary

  1. Greekism
  2. Greekisms
  3. Greekist
  4. Greekists
  5. Greekize
  6. Greekized
  7. Greekizes
  8. Greekizing
  9. Greekland
  10. Greekless
  11. Greeklessness

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