foreignize

To make foreign.

Verb

  1. To make foreign.
    • Politicians warned that unrestricted immigration would foreignize the country.
  2. To retain foreign elements in a story that might be unfamiliar to readers of the translated text.

    Antonyms: domesticate

Origin

From foreign + -ize.

Forms

foreignizes foreignizing foreignized foreignise

Related

foreignist foreignization

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