Nazify

English

Alternative forms

• nazify

Etymology

From Nazi +‎ -fy.

Verb

Nazify (third-person singular simple present Nazifies, present participle Nazifying, simple past and past participle Nazified)

1. To subject or convert to Nazism (National Socialism).
   • 1941, Abraham Wolf, Higher Education in German-occupied Countries:

     It did more to de-nazify the Germans than to nazify the French.

   • 1976, Howard Paul Becker, German Youth: Bond or Free:

     The Ministry of Education expects the teachers of history to espouse National Socialism positively. Thus how to Nazify rather than whether to Nazify […]

Derived terms

• de-Nazify
• Nazification
• re-Nazify

Related terms

• de-Nazification
• de-Nazifier
• National Socialist
• re-Nazification

Translations

subject or convert to Nazism (National Socialism)

French: nazifier (fr) German: nazifizieren Italian: nazificare Russian: нацифици́ровать impf or pf (nacificírovatʹ) Spanish: nazificar