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# anglicise

«anglicise» in Mova's school dictionary: **to change a word, name, or text into English form or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (anglicises, anglicised, anglicising)

### meaning for a pupil

To anglicise is to change a word, name, or text into English form or English ways. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anglicise/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons, when a tale in Scots or another tongue is changed into English words

### examples

- The teacher anglicised the Scots words in the poem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anglicise/#x1)
- The name was anglicised to make it easier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anglicise/#x2)
- I have anglicised the old song for our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anglicise/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anglicise» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anglicise/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.