Austrianize

English

Etymology

From Austrian +‎ -ize.

Verb

Austrianize (third-person singular simple present Austrianizes, present participle Austrianizing, simple past and past participle Austrianized)

1. to make Austrian.
   • 1878, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, page 751:

     She will find the Mahometan as well as the Pravoslav element, both alike Serbian by blood, linked together in opposition against the Croatian bureaucrats by whose means she vainly hoped to Austrianize the province.

   • 1915, The Guardian of Liberty, page 105:

     Austria has owned Trieste about 300 years, but has never been able to Austrianize it.

   • 1969, Henry Wickham Steed, The Hapsburg Monarchy:

     […] that is to say it would represent the tendency to Austrianize and Catholicize the Little Russians on both sides of the border and to detach the Little Russian mass from its Great Russian allegiance.

Translations

to make Austrian

• Esperanto: aŭstrigi