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nativise

nativise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nativize.

Meaning of nativize

Verb

nativize (third-person singular simple present nativizes, present participle nativizing, simple past and past participle nativized)

  1. (transitive) To make native; to incorporate into native culture.
    • India has nativized the English language.

Forms of nativise

third-person singular presentnativises
present participlenativising
past participlenativised
pastnativised

Questions about nativise

What is nativise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Nativise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nativize.

Words near nativise in the dictionary

  1. nativeness
  2. nativenesses
  3. natives
  4. Natividad
  5. nativisation
  6. nativise
  7. nativised
  8. nativises
  9. nativising
  10. nativism
  11. nativisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nativise (page history and authors); nativize (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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