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quislingize

quislingize verb: to corrupt by getting a significant number of members to collaborate with an enemy occupying force.

Verb

quislingize (third-person singular simple present quislingizes, present participle quislingizing, simple past and past participle quislingized)

  1. (dated) To corrupt by getting a significant number of members to collaborate with an enemy occupying force.
    • Norway was the scene of the original Quisling experiment and because of Norway's highly perfected state form it seemed a simple matter to quislingize the Norwegian educational system.1942, Air-Mail Feature and Radio Service, page 10
    • It has been a consistent policy of the Nazis to choose men of no ability to quislingize the countries marked out for invasion, because whatever honesty such men may have they are too flattered by their elevation to scan assurances too closely.1943, Joseph McCabe, The Papacy in Politics Today, page 58
  2. (dated) To collaborate with an enemy occupying force.
    • At most a few dozen individuals, mostly with a prewar Fascist history, have quislingized1998, George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945

Forms of quislingize

third-person singular presentquislingizes
present participlequislingizing
past participlequislingized
pastquislingized
alternative formquislingise

Origin of quislingize

From quisling + -ize.

Questions about quislingize

What does quislingize mean?
Quislingize means to corrupt by getting a significant number of members to collaborate with an enemy occupying force.
What part of speech is quislingize?
Quislingize is a verb.
What is the past tense of quislingize?
The past tense of quislingize is quislingized.

Words near quislingize in the dictionary

  1. quislingising
  2. quislingism
  3. Quislingisms
  4. quislingist
  5. quislingists
  6. quislingize
  7. quislingized
  8. quislingizes
  9. quislingizing
  10. quislings
  11. quism

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