foreignize

verb

Etymology

From foreign + -ize.

  1. derived from forās
  2. derived from *forānus
  3. derived from forain
  4. inherited from foreyn
  5. suffixed as foreignize — “foreign + ize

Definitions

  1. To make foreign.

    • Politicians warned that unrestricted immigration would foreignize the country.
  2. To retain foreign elements in a story that might be unfamiliar to readers of the…

    To retain foreign elements in a story that might be unfamiliar to readers of the translated text.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foreignize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA