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Lithuanize

Lithuanize verb: to make Lithuanian.

Verb

Lithuanize (third-person singular simple present Lithuanizes, present participle Lithuanizing, simple past and past participle Lithuanized)

  1. to make Lithuanian.
    • One thing I can say in favour of my generals — they are not talking about conquering the world, or about the mission of their country to Lithuanize the rest of mankind; which is, as I have discovered, a favourite topic of conversation among the generals of some of the countries which owe their...1921, Edward Alfred Steiner, Old Trails and New Borders, page 43
    • Persons receiving Lithuanian citizenship were pressurized into reporting their nationality as being Lithuanian rather than Polish, all part of the attempt to Lithuanize the region as quickly as possible.2011, Robert van Voren, Undigested Past: The Holocaust in Lithuania, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 23

Forms of Lithuanize

third-person singular presentLithuanizes
present participleLithuanizing
past participleLithuanized
pastLithuanized

Origin of Lithuanize

From Lithuanian + -ize.

Words formed from Lithuanize

Questions about Lithuanize

What does Lithuanize mean?
Lithuanize means to make Lithuanian.
What part of speech is Lithuanize?
Lithuanize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Lithuanize?
The past tense of Lithuanize is Lithuanized.

Words near Lithuanize in the dictionary

  1. Lithuanianizing
  2. Lithuanianness
  3. Lithuanians
  4. Lithuanic
  5. Lithuanization
  6. Lithuanize
  7. lithuresis
  8. lithuria
  9. lithy
  10. litidionite
  11. Litig.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lithuanize (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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