Englishifyv.
/ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃəˌfaɪ/ transitive. = Englify v.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > make English [verb (transitive)]
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [verb (transitive)]
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1855 H. G. Dalton Hist. Brit. Guiana I. ix. 314 The Portuguese word ‘criola’, is often Englishified—a home-born slave.
1859 Harper's Mag. Oct. 640/1 It was yer own blissed grandmither's name, dearie—Honoria... But, ye see, yer pa, he didn't..love any thing Irish..and so, betune 'um, they kind of Englishified it off, and called ye Elinora.
1948 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 12 87 No attempt to ‘Englishify’ the spelling for the benefit of the English ‘man in the street’.
2000 Z. Smith White Teeth (2001) xii. 245 They're Englishifying him completely! They're deliberately leading him away from his culture and his family and his religion.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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