"Estonianize" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Estonian + -ize",
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      "form": "Estonianizes",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "Estonianizing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "Estonianized",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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      "form": "Estonianized",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "2012, David J. Smith, John Hiden, Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State: National Cultural Autonomy Revisited, Routledge, page 103",
          "text": "They also complained of growing efforts to forcibly Estonianize the Russian minority, especially those living in the borderlands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Jeffers Engelhardt, Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia, Oxford University Press, USA, page 114",
          "text": "Even before construction of the new church in Saatse began, signature Estonian practices like versified congregational singing and riimilaulud were brought into the village in order to Estonianize religious life there, although the effectiveness of such reforms among local congregants was questionable",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Rein Taagepera, Estonia: Return To Independence, Routledge",
          "text": "A campaign to Estonianize family names (1936) motivated (and in the case of some state employees, pressured) perhaps a third of the Estonian population to change their names, but numerous Germanic names remained.",
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        "to make Estonian."
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          "Estonian",
          "Estonian"
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        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to make Estonian",
          "word": "estonigi"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Estonianize"
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  "etymology_text": "Estonian + -ize",
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      "form": "Estonianizes",
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        "singular",
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      "form": "Estonianizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "Estonianized",
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        "participle",
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      "form": "Estonianized",
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          "ref": "2012, David J. Smith, John Hiden, Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State: National Cultural Autonomy Revisited, Routledge, page 103",
          "text": "They also complained of growing efforts to forcibly Estonianize the Russian minority, especially those living in the borderlands.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Jeffers Engelhardt, Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia, Oxford University Press, USA, page 114",
          "text": "Even before construction of the new church in Saatse began, signature Estonian practices like versified congregational singing and riimilaulud were brought into the village in order to Estonianize religious life there, although the effectiveness of such reforms among local congregants was questionable",
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        },
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          "ref": "2018, Rein Taagepera, Estonia: Return To Independence, Routledge",
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        "to make Estonian."
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  "word": "Estonianize"
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