paronymize

English

Etymology

From 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.

   Synonym: naturalize