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Martianize

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To make Martian; to endow with Martian characteristics.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • 1906, Walter Lorenzo Sheldon, Letter to Anna Hartshorne Sheldon dated 6 June, 1906 in Summer Greetings from Japan, self-published c. 1908, p. 23, By noon I had made up my mind that, so far as the mass of the people are concerned, this country is still Japan. It may be Martianized (for ought I know), but it is not Europeanized by any manner of means.

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History

Etymology

From Martian + -ize.