Lithuanianize

English

Etymology

Lithuanian +‎ -ize

Verb

Lithuanianize (third-person singular simple present Lithuanianizes, present participle Lithuanianizing, simple past and past participle Lithuanianized)

1. To make or become Lithuanian.
   • 2013, Aldis Purs, Baltic Facades: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 53:

     By the autumn of 1940, however, Lithuanian nationalists' attempts to Lithuanianize the city in the winter of 1939 and spring of 1940 were rapidly replaced

   • 2014, Violeta Davoliūtė, The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Meanwhile, the Lithuanians implemented an intense campaign to Lithuanianize the city and the surrounding region.

   • 2015, Alfonsas Eidintas, Antanas Smetona and His Lithuania: From the National Liberation Movement to an Authoritarian Regime (1893-1940), BRILL, →ISBN, page 41:

     Jakštas, thinking of Kaunas's advantages, categorically asserted that only a miracle could Lithuanianize Vilnius and he did not believe in miracles – God should simply permit a strong Lithuanian colony to form itself in Vilnius.