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Middle Easternize en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle Eastern + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To render something Middle Eastern in character.
    • Just as Muslim Spain Europeanized the Jews of the Middle East, Israel must Middle Easternize European Jews. 2006 Ali Khan, A theory of international terrorism [electronic resource], p 359
    • Furthermore, by bringing the Eritrean issue into the Arab League it tried to Middle-Easternize the Eritrean issue and, by extension, the Nile one. 2004 Kinfe Abraham, Nile dilemmas: hydropolitics and potentials conflict ... - Page 107
    • Most scholars as a result simply continue to Middle Easternize the Middle East, repeating by implication the old East and West of earlier writing. 2006, Steven Salaita, The Holy Land in Transit, vii:

Forms

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Middle Easternizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
Middle Easternise alternative lexicographic
Middle Easternized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
Middle Easternized Tense=Past lexicographic
Middle Easternizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic