americanize

Verb

Meaning

To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

Americanise Americanisation convert term americanization fit adjust adapt integrate modernize tailor assimilate recast configure reshape
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Antonyms

de-Americanize un-Americanize

Hypernyms

change alter modify

Related terms

americanism americanization

Derivatives

americanizer Americanizing

Examples

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely. Rupert Murdoch

After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized Source: Internet

The year in the US has completely Americanized him Source: Internet

Enough with the physical massacres; what was needed was a concerted effort to Americanize and civilise, a form of spiritual genocide. Source: Internet

At a time when many Jews were criticizing Judaism as increasingly irrelevant and seeking to Americanize Jewish practice, Ruskin held firmly to tradition. Source: Internet

The need to find a religious framework that would both accommodate and Americanize them motivated Jacob Schiff and other rich philanthropists, all Reform and of German descent, to donate $500,000 to the JTS. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Americanity Americanizable americanization Americanized americanizer Americanless