CREOLIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they creolize ... he / she / it creolizes

Past simple: creolized

Past participle: creolized

-ing form: creolizing

Meaning:

Develop into a creole

Example:

pidgins often creolize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "creolize" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

creole (a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages)