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decreolize

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de⋅cre⋅o⋅lize

  [dee-kree-uh-lahyz]
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–verb (used with object), -lized, -liz⋅ing. Linguistics.
to modify (a creole language) in the direction of a standard form of the language on which most of the vocabulary of the creole is based.
Also, especially British, de⋅cre⋅o⋅lise.

Origin:
de- + creolize

Related forms:
de⋅cre⋅o⋅li⋅za⋅tion, noun
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