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resovietize

resovietize verb: to Sovietize again.

Verb

resovietize (third-person singular simple present resovietizes, present participle resovietizing, simple past and past participle resovietized)

  1. (transitive) To Sovietize again.
    • According to Crankshaw, one of the main reasons for Khrushchev's fall was his failure to “resovietize” western Ukraine quickly and thoroughly after its reannexation from the Germans in 1944.1992, David R. Marples, “Khruschev, Kaganovich and the 1947 Crisis”, in Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press Ltd, →DOI, →ISBN, page 86

Forms of resovietize

third-person singular presentresovietizes
present participleresovietizing
past participleresovietized
pastresovietized
alternative formre-Sovietize
alternative UKresovietise
alternative UKre-Sovietise

Origin of resovietize

From re- + Sovietize.

Words formed from resovietize

Questions about resovietize

What does resovietize mean?
Resovietize means to Sovietize again.
What part of speech is resovietize?
Resovietize is a verb.
What is the past tense of resovietize?
The past tense of resovietize is resovietized.

Words near resovietize in the dictionary

  1. resourceomes
  2. resources
  3. resourcing
  4. resovietisation
  5. resovietization
  6. resovietize
  7. resovietized
  8. resovietizes
  9. resovietizing
  10. resow
  11. resowed

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