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CREOLIZE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Develop into a creole

Example:

pidgins often creolize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "creolize" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

creole (a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages)

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