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adamantize

adamantize verb: to render (something) adamant; to harden; to strengthen.

Verb

adamantize (third-person singular simple present adamantizes, present participle adamantizing, simple past and past participle adamantized)

  1. (rare, transitive) To render (something) adamant; to harden; to strengthen.
    • I have known such things begun over the loan of a hymn-book, drawn closer by an exchange of cards, cemented by a morning call, adamantized by a walk, and transformed into a regular life-and-death affair by a proper number of cups of tea. It seems to me an interesting weakness.1853 June 18, Eliza Cook, “Making Acquaintances”, in Eliza Cook's Journal, number 216, page 114, column 2
    • " I wonder you don't marry, then, sir."
      " My time is past. Forty years of single blessedness have moulded my character and adamantized my resolutions. Besides, I am a poor man, and a wife is an expensive luxury. […]"1859, Frederick William Robinson, “I Finish the Day” (chapter IV), in Woodleigh, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, page 231

Examples of adamantize in a sentence

  • Her storms harden the rocks, and adamantize the mountains.c. 1888, Samuel Lockwood, chapter IX, in Animal Memoirs: Birds, New York: Ivison, Blakeman, and Company, page 36:
  • They found a way to adamantize diamond to withstand propagation in excess of fifty times the speed of light.2001, William Alan Rieser, Pmat, […] Writers Club Press, page 85:

Forms of adamantize

third-person singular presentadamantizes
present participleadamantizing
past participleadamantized
pastadamantized

Origin of adamantize

From adamant + -ize.

Questions about adamantize

What does adamantize mean?
Adamantize means to render (something) adamant; to harden; to strengthen.
How do you use adamantize in a sentence?
Her storms harden the rocks, and adamantize the mountains.
What part of speech is adamantize?
Adamantize is a verb.
What is the past tense of adamantize?
The past tense of adamantize is adamantized.

Words near adamantize in the dictionary

  1. adamantinomata
  2. adamantinomatous
  3. adamantite
  4. adamantium
  5. adamantive
  6. adamantize
  7. adamantized
  8. adamantizes
  9. adamantizing
  10. adamantly
  11. adamantoblast

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