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Indianise

Indianise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Indianize.

Meaning of Indianize

Verb

Indianize (third-person singular simple present Indianizes, present participle Indianizing, simple past and past participle Indianized)

  1. (transitive) To make Indian.
    • Even an intellectually lively society such as India has generally failed to Indianize the social sciences.2006, Syed Farid Alatas, Alternative discourses in Asian social science: responses to Eurocentrism

Forms of Indianise

third-person singular presentIndianises
present participleIndianising
past participleIndianised
pastIndianised

Questions about Indianise

What is Indianise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Indianise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Indianize.

Words near Indianise in the dictionary

  1. Indiangrasses
  2. Indianhood
  3. Indianian
  4. Indianians
  5. Indianisation
  6. Indianise
  7. Indianised
  8. Indianises
  9. Indianising
  10. Indianism
  11. Indianisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Indianise (page history and authors); Indianize (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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