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to nazify

to nazify

1 9.9
To force a person, group, or place to accept Nazi ideas and rules
  • verb
  • /ˈnɑːzɪfaɪ/
  • Slur
: nazificar
  • They tried to nazify the local government.

I'd find stories about excluding Jewish medicine or Jews from medicine, or who's been promoted, who's been demoted, who's been Nazified.

Examples

  • Some historians examine how the curriculum was nazified in schools under the new government.

  • The party leaders sought to nazify local institutions to ensure ideological conformity.

  • During the 1930s, the regime attempted to nazify every aspect of German society.

  • The regime nazified many institutions during its rise.

  • The government's new policies aim to nazify the education system by promoting extreme nationalist ideologies.

  • Many media outlets are concerned that social platforms are being used to nazify public opinion.

  • Propaganda efforts were designed to nazify the youth and instill loyalty to the regime.

Synonyms

to radicalize
vsto nazify
28 7.7

Cause someone to support very extreme political or social ideas

forces adoption of a named historically specific authoritarian ideology
to stalinize
vsto nazify
  • Formal
9.9

Make a country or group follow strict central control like Stalin used

pushes adoption of a specific nationalist racial authoritarian program

Antonyms

to denazify
  • Formal
9.9

To remove Nazi ideas and influence from people, groups, or institutions after World War II

How Radical

to nazify
  • Slur
1 9.9
to radicalize
28 7.7
to persuade
472 2.7
influence
430 3.4

Surface Forms

nazify infinitive
nazified past
nazified past participle
nazifying present participle
nazifies third person singular

Morphology

nazify = Nazi (transparent) = nazi + fy

Formed by the proper noun 'Nazi' plus the verb-forming suffix '-fy', meaning 'to make or become Nazi-like', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Nazify comes from Nazi (the name of the political party in Germany) and the ending -fy, which means 'to make'. So, to nazify something is to make or force a person, group, or place to follow Nazi ideas and policies.