to Germanize a province, a language, or a society

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

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.

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