foreignizing

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Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

foreignizing

  1. present participle and gerund of foreignize

Adjective[edit]

foreignizing (comparative more foreignizing, superlative most foreignizing)

  1. That makes foreign.
    • 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 52:
      Foreignizing translation styles bend English into shapes that mirror some limited aspect of the source language, such as word order or sentence structure.