Hungarianize

present singular third person Hungarianizes · participle present Hungarianizing · participle past Hungarianized · past Hungarianized

1. ambitransitiveTo make or become Hungarian.

   But in their all-pervasive rage to Hungarianize, they have now gone so far as to Hungarianize even by means of medical science.

   1992, Sándor Bíró, The Nationalities Problem in Transylvania, 1867-1940: A Social History of the Romanian Minority Under Hungarian Rule, 1867-1918 and of the Hungarian Minority Under Romanian Rule, 1918-1940, East European Monographs, →ISBN, page 43

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   strive to imitate and introduce Hungarian ways and the Hungarian language among them, and who, "with all their might, endeavor to Hungarianize the whole Greek Catholic Russian people,"

   1904, Messenger, volume 42, page 665

   They went to live in Budapest but did not Hungarianize their family name prior to leaving Stomfa shortly before the First World War.” “Hungarianize? Why?” “To blend in more easily after Austria and Hungary separated.”

   2016, Robert Landori, Four Equations, FriesenPress, →ISBN

   Synonyms: Hungarize, Magyarize