westernizing

Verb

westernize (third-person singular simple present westernizes, present participle westernizing, simple past and past participle westernized)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To render something western in character.
   • This was Joseph Needham's famous paradox. Why did China, with its ideals of spreading Confucian virtues across the world, fail to “Sinicise” the surrounding world and instead allow itself to be westernised?2006 April, Jin Guoping, “Zheng He e a África Oriental [Zheng He and East Africa]”, in Richard Trewinnard, transl., Oriente, →ISSN, page 44

   Synonyms:

   occidentalize

   Antonyms:

   dewesternize