What is "americanize"

Usage examples of "americanize".

Ting-hao, Hello, Okay, and other Americanized expressions which have become passwords in the CEF.

The realm of the panpan was highly Americanized, whereas the black market, even when GIs roamed through it, was first and last for the Japanese.

Case, so far Americanized the Episcopal Church as to make sure that no unwelcome minister was ever to be forced from outside on one of its parishes.

The probability that the church might, with the continued growth and influence of this party, become Americanized and so lose the purity of its thoroughgoing Scotch traditions was very real, and to some minds very dreadful.

He saw the national investment in Vietnam draining our disposable strength from Europe and the Middle East and the likelihood that the more we Americanized the war, the less South Vietnam would do for itself.

As Israel became a more modern, materialistic, sterile, Americanized society after 1967, many Israelis identified in their hearts with those men climbing the rocky hills of the West Bank, rifles in hand and barbed wire at their feet, keeping watch for the Arabs gathering in the distance.

Americans are fully Americanized, since the United States in the new millennium is still a nation of immigrants and a multicultural, cosmopolitan country.

If malls are Americanizing the world, they seem to be doing so with a peculiar accent.

Every item on the menu has been Americanized, and all the names are cute: Ensanada Ensalada, Pasta Pequeno, Linguini Bambini.

Clever entrepreneurs offered chicken pieces, roast beef sandwiches, fried fish fillets, and Americanized tacos and burritos as alternatives to the more traditional fare of hamburgers and hot dogs.

A revised version by Joseph Mileck and Horst Frenz, Americanizing and updating the Creighton translation, appears in Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover editions from 1963 on, and in the Bantam paperback editions from 1969.

Everyone was an American now, or at least Americanized: Indians, Iranians, Uzbeks, Japanese, Lilliputians, all.

The old boy had heard that if you didn't Americanize your name, the immigration boys would, so he looked at a map of where the Immigration Society had written he'd be living and saw, near Scranton, a little town that sounded reasonable to him, and he'd written in the name Moosic with no understanding of the jokes his descendants would have to bear because of it.

Some Indians have reacted to white supremacy by becoming Americanized, others by retreating into traditional Indianism.