lusitanize
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2VERB + LUSITANIZE
attempted
LUSITANIZE + NOUN
goa, macao
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verb
To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.
To become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.
To translate or adapt into the Portuguese language.
The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.
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3Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.
WiktionaryTheir sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.
WiktionaryThe poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.
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