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agriculturize

agriculturize verb: to convert (land) for agricultural use.

Verb

agriculturize (third-person singular simple present agriculturizes, present participle agriculturizing, simple past and past participle agriculturized)

  1. (transitive) To convert (land) for agricultural use.
    • The settlers agriculturized the forest to grow crops.
  2. (transitive) To convert (a community) to use agriculture (rather than hunting and gathering, or industry, etc).

Synonyms of agriculturize

Forms of agriculturize

third-person singular presentagriculturizes
present participleagriculturizing
past participleagriculturized
pastagriculturized
alternative formagriculturize

Origin of agriculturize

From agriculture + -ize.

Questions about agriculturize

What does agriculturize mean?
Agriculturize means to convert (land) for agricultural use.
What part of speech is agriculturize?
Agriculturize is a verb.
What is the past tense of agriculturize?
The past tense of agriculturize is agriculturized.

Words near agriculturize in the dictionary

  1. agricultures
  2. agriculturise
  3. agriculturism
  4. agriculturist
  5. agriculturists
  6. agriculturize
  7. agridollar
  8. agridollars
  9. agrifood
  10. agrifoods
  11. agrifoodstuff

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