decreolize

decreolize
/dee kree"euh luyz'/, v.t., decreolized, decreolizing. Ling.
to modify (a creole language) in the direction of a standard form of the language on which most of the vocabulary of the creole is based.
Also, esp. Brit., decreolise.
[DE- + CREOLIZE]

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