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Serbian +‎ -ize

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Serbianize (third-person singular simple present Serbianizes, present participle Serbianizing, simple past and past participle Serbianized)

  1. (transitive) To make Serbian.
    Synonym: Serbize
    • 1997, Anđelko Mijatović, Bleiburg 1945-1995: Međunarodni znanstveni skup, →ISBN:
      Therefore, they endeavoured by all means to educate in administration a certain number of people from Bosnia and, once they were sent back, this would be utilized to Serbianize Bosnia.
    • 2008, Klaus Roth, Ulf Brunnbauer, Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, LIT Verlag Münster, →ISBN, page 147:
      While Serbs have reconciled themselves to their failure to Serbianize Macedonia, Bulgarians have not, perhaps because Bulgarophile Macedonian Slavs still exist.
    • 2015, George C. Papavizas, Claiming Macedonia: The Struggle for the Heritage, Territory and Name of the Historic Hellenic Land, 1862–2004, McFarland, →ISBN, page 92:
      Serbia also made great efforts to move Serbs to Macedonia to Serbianize the local slavophone population.

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