Lithuanianize

present singular third person Lithuanianizes · participle present Lithuanianizing · participle past Lithuanianized · past Lithuanianized

1. To make or become Lithuanian.

   Meanwhile, the Lithuanians implemented an intense campaign to Lithuanianize the city and the surrounding region.

   2014, Violeta Davoliūtė, The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War, Routledge, →ISBN

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   By the autumn of 1940, however, Lithuanian nationalists' attempts to Lithuanianize the city in the winter of 1939 and spring of 1940 were rapidly replaced

   2013, Aldis Purs, Baltic Facades: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 53

   Jakštas, thinking of Kaunas's advantages, categorically asserted that only a miracle could Lithuanianize Vilnius and he did not believe in miracles – God should simply permit a strong Lithuanian colony to form itself in Vilnius.

   2015, Alfonsas Eidintas, Antanas Smetona and His Lithuania: From the National Liberation Movement to an Authoritarian Regime (1893-1940), BRILL, →ISBN, page 41