Martianize

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Martianize (third-person singular simple present Martianizes, present participle Martianizing, simple past and past participle Martianized)

(transitive) To make Martian; to endow with Martian characteristics.
- 1906, Walter Lorenzo Sheldon, Letter to Anna Hartshorne Sheldon dated 6 June, 1906 in Summer Greetings from Japan, self-published c. 1908, p. 23,^[1]
  By noon I had made up my mind that, so far as the mass of the people are concerned, this country is still Japan. It may be Martianized (for ought I know), but it is not Europeanized by any manner of means.
- 1937, H. G. Wells, Star Begotten‎^[2], Chapter 2, § 3:
  And when they have got the world Martianized, when they’ve started a race here with minds like their own and yet with bodies fit for earth, when they have practically interbred with us and ousted our strain, then they’ll begin to send along their treasures, their apparatus—grafting their life on ours.
- 1970, Garry Wills, “Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man”, in Mariner‎^[3], Boston, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 48:
  The buildings look as much out of place as if they had come from Mars—big isolated boxes brought dangling from Martian helicopters like Christ dangling incongruous across the first shots of La Dolce Vita. […] The Civic Center was one of the first things to “renew”—i.e., Martianize—Baltimore.
- 2008, Arnold Weinstein, chapter 4, in Northern Arts: The Breakthrough of Scandinavian Literature and Art, from Ibsen to Bergman‎^[4], Princeton University Press, page 351:
  Looking at this piece [Red Virginia Creeper]^[5], I am reminded of Oliver Sacks’s lovely title for one of his collections, An Anthropologist on Mars; Munch manages to “martianize” our old familiar world, not via some “shock of recognition,” but rather as the result of a canny recombinant strategy, a hypnotic fusing of disparate pieces together, so that the whole is not merely greater than the sum of its part[s], it is a quantum leap beyond its parts altogether.