babelize

present singular third person babelizes · participle present babelizing · participle past babelized · past babelized · alternative Babelize

1. To confuse by mixing or mingling divergent or distinct languages or cultures.

   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.

   1995, Thomas A. Wilson, Genealogy of the way: the construction and uses of the Confucian tradition in late imperial China, →ISBN, page 18

present singular third person Babelizes · participle present Babelizing · participle past Babelized · past Babelized

1. alternativeAlternative form of babelize.