English

Maoize

From Mao + -ize.

Formed from Mao + -ize

Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *makomako

Samoan ma'oma'o ‘a bird of the genus Gymnomyza’

Samoan ma'o

English Mao

Today it means

verb To bring under the political control of Mao Zedong.

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