Americanized
to make or become in character; assimilate to the customs and institutions of the U.S.
Contemporary Examples
This is an americanized version of the famed Running with the Bulls festival in Pamplona, Spain.
Chicago’s Running of the Bulls Hampton Stevens July 25, 2014
Think of a latter-day americanized version of Downton Abbey—where everyone knows his or her place, and our betters look best.
‘Downton Abbey’ Democrats May Cost their Party the Senate Lloyd Green March 23, 2014
Is he an americanized version of Silvio Berlusconi, determined to wield political and media power in a seamless web of influence?
Mike Bloomberg’s New Megaphone Howard Kurtz December 16, 2010
Historical Examples
Hunter, the head, proved to be a first-rate type of an americanized Irishman.
Wake-Robin John Burroughs
You see I soon began to be americanized and to claim things.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Anonymous
But the absurdity of his imagination, so thoroughly americanized, evoked a ringing laughter.
The Princess Elopes Harold MacGrath
He told me to get americanized, to come out of the mud-pond and get into the rapids.
The Silver Poppy Arthur Stringer
And all this time Edward Bok’s failure to be entirely americanized was brought home to his consciousness.
The Americanization of Edward Bok Edward William Bok
It seems almost a pity that she is americanized, don’t you think, dear?
Wanted: A Cook Alan Dale
He furnishes excellent raw material for American citizenship, if he does not come too rapidly to be americanized.
Aliens or Americans? Howard B. Grose
verb
to make or become American in outlook, attitudes, etc
v.
1797, from American + -ize. Related: Americanized; Americanizing.
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