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Definition 2024
foreignizing
foreignizing
English
Verb
foreignizing
- present participle of foreignize
Adjective
foreignizing (comparative more foreignizing, superlative most foreignizing)
- That makes foreign.
- 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin 2012, p. 52:
- Foreignizing translation styles bend English into shapes that mirror some limited aspect of the source language, such as word order or sentence structure.
- 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin 2012, p. 52: