Jordanianize

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verb

To make Jordanian

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Meanings

verbJordanianize (third-person singular simple present Jordanianizes, present participle Jordanianizing, simple past and past participle Jordanianized)

present singular third person Jordanianizes · participle present Jordanianizing · participle past Jordanianized · past Jordanianized

  1. To make Jordanian

    In other words, the regime sought to Jordanianize the Palestinians

    1991, Robert Freedman, The Middle East from the Iran-Contra Affair to the Intifada, page 270
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    ... has little functional or communicative content, is not Jordanianized' but has only s surface Jordanian element ...

    1987, Resources in Education, Page, published 1878

    Others had become unconsciously Jordanianized or, in the case of the Gazans, Egyptianized during the years between 1948 and 1967 and looked instinctively to their former governments for help.

    1995, Michael Field, Inside the Arab World - Page 351

Origin

From Jordanian + -ize.

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Chicago

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