"Frenchize" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "French + -ize",
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  "etymology_text": "From French + -ize.",
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      "form": "Frenchizes",
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      "form": "Frenchizing",
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      "form": "Frenchized",
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          "ref": "1849 April, Park Benjamin, “The Recluse. No. I”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume 34, number 4:",
          "text": "But I shall not twist the English language out of all shape and comeliness; I shall not Germanize and Frenchize and Italianize; I shall express my ideas in the simplest possible words; I shall always choose the Saxon rather than the Norman; I shall endavor to write so that \"he who runs may read.\"",
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          "ref": "1926, Educational Administration & Supervision - Volume 12, page 231:",
          "text": "The French-Canadian does not Frenchize. In Canada, for three centuries, he has been hemmed in by English and Scotch colonists and he has never Frenchized any one. He comes from a stock to whom the thought is repugnant of making French out of any less fine material.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1931, John Green Sims, Is [the] truth wicked?, page 36:",
          "text": "Resolved, that the government should \"Fordize,\" or Kulturize, the necessarily large-scale occupations in a way that would more or less \"French-ize\" America; Resolved, that individuals not wait for the government to \"Frenchize.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Matthew Hayday, So They Want Us to Learn French:",
          "text": "Mallory saw all of this as part of a giant plot of Quebec nationalists to seize control of the government and “Frenchize” Canada with the support of the “mother country” of France.",
          "type": "quote"
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        "To make or become more French; to make or become more like France, the French language, or French-speaking people."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gallicize"
        },
        {
          "word": "Frenchise"
        }
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  "word": "Frenchize"
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  "etymology_text": "From French + -ize.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "Frenchizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Frenchizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Frenchized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Frenchized",
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          "ref": "1849 April, Park Benjamin, “The Recluse. No. I”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volume 34, number 4:",
          "text": "But I shall not twist the English language out of all shape and comeliness; I shall not Germanize and Frenchize and Italianize; I shall express my ideas in the simplest possible words; I shall always choose the Saxon rather than the Norman; I shall endavor to write so that \"he who runs may read.\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "1926, Educational Administration & Supervision - Volume 12, page 231:",
          "text": "The French-Canadian does not Frenchize. In Canada, for three centuries, he has been hemmed in by English and Scotch colonists and he has never Frenchized any one. He comes from a stock to whom the thought is repugnant of making French out of any less fine material.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, John Green Sims, Is [the] truth wicked?, page 36:",
          "text": "Resolved, that the government should \"Fordize,\" or Kulturize, the necessarily large-scale occupations in a way that would more or less \"French-ize\" America; Resolved, that individuals not wait for the government to \"Frenchize.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Matthew Hayday, So They Want Us to Learn French:",
          "text": "Mallory saw all of this as part of a giant plot of Quebec nationalists to seize control of the government and “Frenchize” Canada with the support of the “mother country” of France.",
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        }
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    {
      "word": "Frenchise"
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  "word": "Frenchize"
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