decreolize: Meaning and Definition of

de•cre•o•lize

Pronunciation: (dē-krē'u-līz"), [key]
— -lized, -liz•ing.
  1. 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.
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