Colloquialize

Related to Colloquialize: outcompete, Descoping

Col`lo´qui`al`ize


v. t.1.To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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