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Georgian +‎ -ize

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Georgianize (third-person singular simple present Georgianizes, present participle Georgianizing, simple past and past participle Georgianized)

  1. to make Georgian.
    • 1995, Anna Kreikemeyer, Andreĭ Vladimirovich Zagorskiĭ, Crisis management in the CIS: whither Russia?:
      so that they resent recent Kartvelian encroachment on their land, which has been accompanied by repeated attempts to Georgianize them.
    • 2003, John Wright, Richard Schofield, Suzanne Goldenberg, Transcaucasian Boundaries, Routledge, →ISBN, page 196:
      They resent Kartvelian encroachment on their land, which has been accompanied by repeated attempts to Georgianize or Kartvelianize their people.
    • 2012, Anatoly M. Khazanov, Andre Wink, Nomads in the Sedentary World, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52:
      The Georgians made even greater efforts to Georgianize and Christianize the nomads who had taken service with the Crown.

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