Jordanianize

English

Etymology

Jordanian +‎ -ize

Verb

Jordanianize (third-person singular simple present Jordanianizes, present participle Jordanianizing, simple past and past participle Jordanianized)

1. To make Jordanian
   • 1987, Resources in Education, Page, published 1878:

     ... has little functional or communicative content, is not Jordanianized' but has only s surface Jordanian element ...

   • 1991, Robert Freedman, The Middle East from the Iran-Contra Affair to the Intifada, page 270

     In other words, the regime sought to Jordanianize the Palestinians

   • 1995, Michael Field, Inside the Arab World - Page 351

     Others had become unconsciously Jordanianized or, in the case of the Gazans, Egyptianized during the years between 1948 and 1967 and looked instinctively to their former governments for help.

Derived terms

• Jordanianization