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portuguesify

portuguesify is the alternative letter-case form of Portuguesify.

Verb capitalized: Portuguesify

Portuguesify (third-person singular simple present Portuguesifies, present participle Portuguesifying, simple past and past participle Portuguesified)

  1. (rare, transitive) Synonym of lusitanize, to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
    • Traders and governors attempted to Portuguesify Goa and Macao for centuries... You can Portuguesify Castilian Spanish easily enough...
    Synonyms:
    lusitanize, to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like
  2. (intransitive, rare) Synonym of lusitanize, to become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
    • Their sandwiches are portuguesified by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.
    Synonyms:
    lusitanize, to become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like

Synonyms of portuguesify

  • lusitanize
  • to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like
  • to become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like

Forms of portuguesify

third-person singular presentportuguesifies
present participleportuguesifying
past participleportuguesified
pastportuguesified
third-person singular presentPortuguesifies
present participlePortuguesifying
past participlePortuguesified
pastPortuguesified
alternative formportuguesify

Origin of portuguesify

From Portuguese + -ify by analogy with more common terms such as Frenchify.

Questions about portuguesify

What does portuguesify mean?
Portuguesify means synonym of lusitanize, to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
What is portuguesify the alternative letter-case form of?
Portuguesify is the alternative letter-case form of Portuguesify.
What part of speech is portuguesify?
Portuguesify is a verb.
What is the past tense of portuguesify?
The past tense of portuguesify is portuguesified.

Words near portuguesify in the dictionary

  1. Portugueses
  2. Portuguesic
  3. Portuguesification
  4. portuguesified
  5. portuguesifies
  6. portuguesify
  7. portuguesifying
  8. Portuguesism
  9. Portuguesisms
  10. Portugueze
  11. Portuguezes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: portuguesify (page history and authors); Portuguesify (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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