Serbianize

present singular third person Serbianizes · participle present Serbianizing · participle past Serbianized · past Serbianized

1. transitiveTo make Serbian.

   Serbia also made great efforts to move Serbs to Macedonia to Serbianize the local slavophone population.

   2015, George C. Papavizas, Claiming Macedonia: The Struggle for the Heritage, Territory and Name of the Historic Hellenic Land, 1862–2004, McFarland, →ISBN, page 92

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   Therefore, they endeavoured by all means to educate in administration a certain number of people from Bosnia and, once they were sent back, this would be utilized to Serbianize Bosnia.

   1997, Anđelko Mijatović, Bleiburg 1945-1995: Međunarodni znanstveni skup, →ISBN

   While Serbs have reconciled themselves to their failure to Serbianize Macedonia, Bulgarians have not, perhaps because Bulgarophile Macedonian Slavs still exist.

   2008, Klaus Roth, Ulf Brunnbauer, Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, LIT Verlag Münster, →ISBN, page 147

   Synonyms: Serbize