procrusteanize

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procrusteanize (third-person singular simple present procrusteanizes, present participle procrusteanizing, simple past and past participle procrusteanized)

(transitive) To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “procrusteanize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)