Nazify

English

Alternative forms

  • nazify

Etymology

From Nazi + -fy.

Verb

Nazify (third-person singular simple present Nazifies, present participle Nazifying, simple past and past participle Nazified)

  1. To subject or convert to Nazism (National Socialism).
    • 1941, Abraham Wolf, Higher Education in German-occupied Countries:
      It did more to de-nazify the Germans than to nazify the French.
    • 1976, Howard Paul Becker, German Youth: Bond or Free:
      The Ministry of Education expects the teachers of history to espouse National Socialism positively. Thus how to Nazify rather than whether to Nazify []

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