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What does westernize mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word westernize? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To make something western in character.
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He said the education ministry's decision was an attempt to Westernize Kuwaiti society.
He decided to westernize his name after moving from Japan to Canada.
Peter attempted to modernize and westernize the country militarily, administratively, economically, and culturally, often through the use of force.
Usually the hotels westernize their menus for us for a few days.
The last part is on Enrique Dussel's project of transmodernity and what it means to decolonize the Westernize university.
But at a time when even a poor country can morph, in the blink of an eye, into an industrialised one, what really matters is not whether a state is westernized, but whether it wants to westernize.

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