japonize

English

Verb

japonize (third-person singular simple present japonizes, present participle japonizing, simple past and past participle japonized)

1. Alternative form of Japanize.
   • 1938, The China Journal - Volume 29, page 98:

     On the whole, these activities seem quite chaotic, but they all are started along the same line of principle, i.e., to japonize everything of economic value in China that possibly can japonized.

   • 2001, Simon Fraser, Toyojirō Hida, Contemporary Japanese Jewellery:

     This information is then quietly and clearly absorbed into Japanese culture and 'japonized'.

   • 2019, Uriah Y. Kim, Seung Ai Yang, T&T Clark Handbook of Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics:

     Ironically, the current term is airon, a japonized version of the English word, “iron” (Ikeda 2015, 19; cf. 90–91).

Portuguese

Verb

japonize

1. inflection of japonizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative