\Ger"man*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Germanized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Germanizing}.] To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
\Ger"man*ize\, v. i. To reason or write after the manner of the Germans.