Georgianize

present singular third person Georgianizes · participle present Georgianizing · participle past Georgianized · past Georgianized

1. transitiveTo make Georgian.

   The Georgians made even greater efforts to Georgianize and Christianize the nomads who had taken service with the Crown.

   2012, Anatoly M. Khazanov, Andre Wink, Nomads in the Sedentary World, Routledge, →ISBN, page 52

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   so that they resent recent Kartvelian encroachment on their land, which has been accompanied by repeated attempts to Georgianize them.

   1995, Anna Kreikemeyer, Andreĭ Vladimirovich Zagorskiĭ, Crisis management in the CIS: whither Russia?

   They resent Kartvelian encroachment on their land, which has been accompanied by repeated attempts to Georgianize or Kartvelianize their people.

   2003, John Wright, Richard Schofield, Suzanne Goldenberg, Transcaucasian Boundaries, Routledge, →ISBN, page 196