EUROPEANIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Europeanize mean? 

• EUROPEANIZE (verb)
  The verb EUROPEANIZE has 2 senses:

1. make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas

2. denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations

  Familiarity information: EUROPEANIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUROPEANIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they europeanize    ... he / she / it europeanizes   
Past simple: europeanized   
Past participle: europeanized   
-ing form: europeanizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

Europeanise; Europeanize

Hypernyms (to "Europeanize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

Europeanization (assimilation into European culture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

Europeanise; Europeanize

Hypernyms (to "Europeanize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something