Afrikanerize, verb transitive
- Forms:
- Formerly also Afrikanderize.
- Origin:
- EnglishShow more Afrikaner noun sense 2 a + English verb-forming suffix -ize.
To assimilate (someone) into the Afrikaner community; to bring (something) under the control or administration of Afrikaner people; to make (language) more Afrikaans, in form or pronunciation.
1905 Lord A. Milner in C. Headlam Milner Papers (1933) II. 552A separate Afrikander nation and State, comprising, no doubt, men of other races, who are ready to be ‘afrikanderized’.
1989 Sunday Times 29 Oct. 28Not even Afrikaners married to English-speaking wives are allowed membership unless she has been ‘Afrikanerised’.
To assimilate (someone) into the Afrikaner community; to bring (something) under the control or administration of Afrikaner people; to make (language) more Afrikaans, in form or pronunciation.
- Derivatives:
- Hence Afrikanerization noun; Afrikanerizing verbal noun; also attributive.1970 Sunday Times 22 Mar.There is a very real danger of a greater Afrikanerisation of our youth, which will mean that the heritage and culture of the English-speaking section will be lessened and diluted.

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