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English
Etymology
From Lithuanian + -ize.
Verb
Lithuanianize (third-person singular simple present Lithuanianizes, present participle Lithuanianizing, simple past and past participle Lithuanianized)
- To make or become Lithuanian.
2013, Aldis Purs, Baltic Facades: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 53:By the autumn of 1940, however, Lithuanian nationalists' attempts to Lithuanianize the city in the winter of 1939 and spring of 1940 were rapidly replaced
2014, Violeta Davoliūtė, The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War, Routledge, →ISBN:Meanwhile, the Lithuanians implemented an intense campaign to Lithuanianize the city and the surrounding region.
2015, Alfonsas Eidintas, Antanas Smetona and His Lithuania: From the National Liberation Movement to an Authoritarian Regime (1893-1940), BRILL, →ISBN, page 41:Jakštas, thinking of Kaunas's advantages, categorically asserted that only a miracle could Lithuanianize Vilnius and he did not believe in miracles – God should simply permit a strong Lithuanian colony to form itself in Vilnius.