to Germanize a province, a language, or a society

His eyes are cold, and the chill between us twists in the pit of my stomach.

Thrones, chairs, tables, beds, ropes, carts, and guns appear in lightning speed to transform the stage into battlefields, bedrooms and thronerooms, into roads, docks, and taverns.

Ah where’s thy manubial glory of yore, The hall’s bright bedeckment of beauty?