"Japanize" meaning in English

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        "3": "ize"
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      "expansion": "Japan + -ize",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Japan + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Japanizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Japanizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Japanized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Japanized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Japanize (third-person singular simple present Japanizes, present participle Japanizing, simple past and past participle Japanized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003 December 3, Mark Schilling, “The ideal Xmas present?”, in The Japan Times",
          "text": "His latest, Tokyo Godfathers, may sound like a gangster film, but rather it's Kon's attempt to Japanize a Western tradition that goes back to Charles Dickens and beyond: the heartwarming holiday story.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To nipponize."
      ],
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        [
          "nipponize",
          "nipponize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To nipponize."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Japanese"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "japanize"
        },
        {
          "word": "Japanise"
        },
        {
          "word": "japanise"
        },
        {
          "word": "Japonize"
        },
        {
          "word": "japonize"
        },
        {
          "word": "Japonise"
        },
        {
          "word": "japonise"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "japonizíram",
          "sense": "to Nipponize",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "японизи́рам"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to Nipponize",
          "word": "japanisieren"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to Nipponize",
          "word": "japonizar"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "to Nipponize",
          "word": "Nhật hóa"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "to Nipponize",
          "word": "Nhật Bản hóa"
        },
        {
          "code": "vo",
          "lang": "Volapük",
          "sense": "to Nipponize",
          "word": "Yapänön"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Japanize"
}

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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Japan",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "Japan + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Japan + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Japanizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Japanizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Japanized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Japanized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Japanese"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "2003 December 3, Mark Schilling, “The ideal Xmas present?”, in The Japan Times",
          "text": "His latest, Tokyo Godfathers, may sound like a gangster film, but rather it's Kon's attempt to Japanize a Western tradition that goes back to Charles Dickens and beyond: the heartwarming holiday story.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To nipponize."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nipponize",
          "nipponize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To nipponize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "japanize"
    },
    {
      "word": "Japanise"
    },
    {
      "word": "japanise"
    },
    {
      "word": "Japonize"
    },
    {
      "word": "japonize"
    },
    {
      "word": "Japonise"
    },
    {
      "word": "japonise"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "japonizíram",
      "sense": "to Nipponize",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "японизи́рам"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to Nipponize",
      "word": "japanisieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to Nipponize",
      "word": "japonizar"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to Nipponize",
      "word": "Nhật hóa"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to Nipponize",
      "word": "Nhật Bản hóa"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "to Nipponize",
      "word": "Yapänön"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Japanize"
}