"babelize" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Babel + -ize",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Babel + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "babelizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "babelizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "babelized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babelized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Babelize",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Thomas A. Wilson, Genealogy of the way: the construction and uses of the Confucian tradition in late imperial China, →ISBN, page 18:",
          "text": "And if we want to speak upon our return of what we have learned there, to speak in our language perforce loses the life of their thoughts, but to speak in their language is to babelize in our own world.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To confuse by mixing or mingling divergent or distinct languages or cultures."
      ],
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          "confuse",
          "confuse"
        ],
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          "mixing",
          "mixing"
        ],
        [
          "mingling",
          "mingling"
        ],
        [
          "divergent",
          "divergent"
        ],
        [
          "distinct",
          "distinct"
        ],
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "culture",
          "culture"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "babelize"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Babel",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "Babel + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Babel + -ize.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "babelizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babelizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babelized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "babelized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Babelize",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English terms suffixed with -ize",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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        {
          "ref": "1995, Thomas A. Wilson, Genealogy of the way: the construction and uses of the Confucian tradition in late imperial China, →ISBN, page 18:",
          "text": "And if we want to speak upon our return of what we have learned there, to speak in our language perforce loses the life of their thoughts, but to speak in their language is to babelize in our own world.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To confuse by mixing or mingling divergent or distinct languages or cultures."
      ],
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          "mixing",
          "mixing"
        ],
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          "mingling",
          "mingling"
        ],
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          "divergent",
          "divergent"
        ],
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          "distinct",
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          "language",
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