Austrianize

present singular third person Austrianizes · participle present Austrianizing · participle past Austrianized · past Austrianized

1. to make Austrian.

   Austria has owned Trieste about 300 years, but has never been able to Austrianize it.

   1915, The Guardian of Liberty, page 105

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   She will find the Mahometan as well as the Pravoslav element, both alike Serbian by blood, linked together in opposition against the Croatian bureaucrats by whose means she vainly hoped to Austrianize the province.

   1878, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, page 751

   […] that is to say it would represent the tendency to Austrianize and Catholicize the Little Russians on both sides of the border and to detach the Little Russian mass from its Great Russian allegiance.

   1969, Henry Wickham Steed, The Hapsburg Monarchy