depidginize

English

Etymology

de- + pidginize

Verb

depidginize (third-person singular simple present depidginizes, present participle depidginizing, simple past and past participle depidginized)

  1. (intransitive, linguistics) Of a pidgin language, to become the native language of a population.

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