relexify

US: (rē lek′sə fī′)

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

re•lex•i•fy  (rē lek′sə fī′), v.t., -fied, -fy•ing. [Ling.]

1. Linguistics to replace the vocabulary of (a language, esp. a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.

• re- +lexi(con) + -fy 1960–65

re•lex′i•fi•ca′tion, n.