D defs.my
Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Germanize

· Ger·man·ize · IPA /ˈd͡ʒɝmənaɪz/
01 v. t. To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
imp. & p. p. Germanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Germanizing
  1. 1.
    To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
02 v. i. To reason or write after the manner of the Germans.
  1. 1.
    To reason or write after the manner of the Germans.