colloquializing
English
Adjective
colloquializing (comparative more colloquializing, superlative most colloquializing)
- converting into a colloquial or informal register.
- 1989, Harivallabh Chunilal Bhayani, Apabhraṁśa Language and Literature: A Short Introduction, page 3:
- In course of time this mixed language becomes again standardized and the colloquializing process is repeated.
- 2009, Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe (eds), Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessment, page 309:
- The present analysis, focused on genre categories and pragmatic aims, shows that the colloquialising force of the semi-modal does not work in isolation.
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Verb
colloquializing
- present participle of colloquialize