1. third person singular present of creolise: to develop into or cause to become a creole language
Usage: British spelling; linguistics

Examples

• The pidgin gradually creolises as children learn it as their first language.
• Contact between different languages often creolises into new forms of communication.
• The linguist studies how trade language creolises over generations.
• When a pidgin creolises, it becomes more complex and stable.
• The process creolises the original languages into something entirely new.