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WASPize

WASPize verb: to become or make more WASPy.

Verb

WASPize (third-person singular simple present WASPizes, present participle WASPizing, simple past and past participle WASPized)

  1. To become or make more WASPy
    • Usually famous people, or those on the road to fame, adopt new names not so that they will stand out, but so that they will blend in. Americanizing or WASPizing one's name is familiar to us all. In fact, I am quite proud when an entertainer keeps her/his original hard-to-pronounce name.1980 April 5, Cindy Rizzo, “Coming Out - Again”, in Gay Community News, page 5

Forms of WASPize

third-person singular presentWASPizes
present participleWASPizing
past participleWASPized
pastWASPized

Questions about WASPize

What does WASPize mean?
WASPize means to become or make more WASPy.
What part of speech is WASPize?
WASPize is a verb.
What is the past tense of WASPize?
The past tense of WASPize is WASPized.

Words near WASPize in the dictionary

  1. wasping around
  2. waspish
  3. waspishly
  4. waspishness
  5. WASPization
  6. WASPize
  7. waspless
  8. wasplike
  9. waspling
  10. wasplings
  11. waspnest

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