paronymize

English

Etymology

paronym +‎ -ize

Verb

paronymize (third-person singular simple present paronymizes, present participle paronymizing, simple past and past participle paronymized)

  1. (linguistics, transitive, rare) To convert into a paronym.
  2. (linguistics, transitive, rare) To adapt a word from a foreign language by rendering it into a native form.
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