bolshevize

English

Etymology

Bolshevik +‎ -ize

Verb

bolshevize (third-person singular simple present bolshevizes, present participle bolshevizing, simple past and past participle bolshevized)

1. (transitive) To make Bolshevik.
   • 1927 May, Quincy Wright, “Bolshevist Influences in China”, in Current History‎^[1], volume XXVI, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 302, column 2:

     Moscow doubtless wants to make trouble for the Western Powers so far as she can without losing their recognition or encouraging actual hostility. She wants peace and trade and an opportunity for internal economic reconstruction above everything just now. It seems doubtful whether she expects to Bolshevize China, though she wants China fully independent of Western imperialism and friendly to her.

Translations

to make Bolshevik

• Arabic: بَلْشَفَ (balšafa)
• Finnish: bolševisoida
• German: bolschewisieren
• Russian: большевизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (bolʹševizírovatʹ)