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BOLSHEVISE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles
Example:
communize the government
Synonyms:
bolshevise; bolshevize; communise; communize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "bolshevise" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
Bolshevik (emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries)
Bolshevik (a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party)
