colloquializing

comparative more colloquializing · superlative most colloquializing

1. converting into a colloquial or informal register.

   In course of time this mixed language becomes again standardized and the colloquializing process is repeated.

   1989, Harivallabh Chunilal Bhayani, Apabhraṁśa Language and Literature: A Short Introduction, page 3

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   The present analysis, focused on genre categories and pragmatic aims, shows that the colloquialising force of the semi-modal does not work in isolation.

   2009, Antoinette Renouf, Andrew Kehoe (eds), Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessment, page 309

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of colloquialize