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quislingizing

quislingizing is the present participle and gerund of quislingize.

Meaning of quislingize

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
  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

Questions about quislingizing

What is quislingizing the present participle and gerund of?
Quislingizing is the present participle and gerund of quislingize.

Words near quislingizing in the dictionary

  1. quislingist
  2. quislingists
  3. quislingize
  4. quislingized
  5. quislingizes
  6. quislingizing
  7. quislings
  8. quism
  9. quisms
  10. Quispamsis
  11. Quispe

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