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Mexicanize

Mexicanize verb: to make Mexican.

Verb

Mexicanize (third-person singular simple present Mexicanizes, present participle Mexicanizing, simple past and past participle Mexicanized)

  1. (transitive) To make Mexican.
    • Mexicanizing a recipe isn't as simple as covering it in peppers and guacamole!
  2. (intransitive) To become Mexican.
    • US businesses have met with mixed results in attempting to Mexicanize.

Forms of Mexicanize

third-person singular presentMexicanizes
present participleMexicanizing
past participleMexicanized
pastMexicanized

Origin of Mexicanize

From Mexican + -ize.

Questions about Mexicanize

What does Mexicanize mean?
Mexicanize means to make Mexican.
What part of speech is Mexicanize?
Mexicanize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Mexicanize?
The past tense of Mexicanize is Mexicanized.

Words near Mexicanize in the dictionary

  1. Mexicanist
  2. Mexicanists
  3. Mexicanity
  4. Mexicanization
  5. Mexicanizations
  6. Mexicanize
  7. Mexicanized
  8. Mexicanizes
  9. Mexicanizing
  10. Mexicanness
  11. Mexicano

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mexicanize (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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