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ORIENTALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does orientalize mean?
• ORIENTALIZE (verb)
The verb ORIENTALIZE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: ORIENTALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they orientalize
... he / she / it orientalizes

Past simple: orientalized

Past participle: orientalized

-ing form: orientalizing





Past simple: orientalized


Past participle: orientalized


-ing form: orientalizing


Sense 1
Meaning:
Make oriental in character
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
orientalise; orientalize
Context example:
orientalize your garden
Hypernyms (to "orientalize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Antonym:
occidentalize (make western in character)
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