normandize
normandize verb: to invade Europe. Also the alternative form of Normandize.
Verb (1)
normandize (third-person singular simple present normandizes, present participle normandizing, simple past and past participle normandized)
- To invade Europe.
- The Army Chief of Staff [Omar Bradley] lamented the country's great vulnerability. "All we have right now," [David E.] Lilenthal paraphrases Bradley, parenthetically filling in the blanks he had left in his diary for the sake of security, "but all, is (our A-bomb stockpile). Without that we are...1995, Richard Rhodes, chapter 20, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- The United States would never again be able to "normandize," that is, to invade Europe as it had in 1944.1999, Lisle Abbott Rose, The Cold War Comes to Main Street: America in 1950, page 98
Verb (2) capitalized: Normandize
Normandize (third-person singular simple present Normandizes, present participle Normandizing, simple past and past participle Normandized)
- To make more Norman; to subject to a Norman influence.
- But a very ingenious author has, with great plausibility, sketched the process by which the Saxon was Normandized.1802, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, page 220
- Thus, in time, fair England was Normandized; William, with dignity, rested and gormandized.1897, The Century: 1897 - Volume 54, page 958
Also used as
normandize is also the alternative form of Normandize.
Forms of normandize
| third-person singular present | normandizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | normandizing |
| past participle | normandized |
| past | normandized |
| third-person singular present | Normandizes |
| present participle | Normandizing |
| past participle | Normandized |
| past | Normandized |
| alternative form | normandize |
Origin of normandize
From Normandy + -ize.
Questions about normandize
- What does normandize mean?
- Normandize means to invade Europe.
- What part of speech is normandize?
- Normandize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of normandize?
- The past tense of normandize is normandized.
Words near normandize in the dictionary
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