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asweddumize

asweddumize verb: to prepare unproductive land for cultivation (especially of rice).

Verb

asweddumize (third-person singular simple present asweddumizes, present participle asweddumizing, simple past and past participle asweddumized)

  1. (Sri-Lanka) To prepare unproductive land for cultivation (especially of rice).
    • […] of a party who asweddumizes another's lands with his assent...1862, Owen W. C. Morgan, editor, A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court Sitting at Colombo, Since the Promulgation of the Charter of 1833, Colombo: Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, page xlvii

Forms of asweddumize

third-person singular presentasweddumizes
present participleasweddumizing
past participleasweddumized
pastasweddumized
alternative formasweddumise

Origin of asweddumize

From Sinhalese අස්වැද්දුම (aswædduma) + -ize. First attested in 1857.

Questions about asweddumize

What does asweddumize mean?
Asweddumize means to prepare unproductive land for cultivation (especially of rice).
What part of speech is asweddumize?
Asweddumize is a verb.
What is the past tense of asweddumize?
The past tense of asweddumize is asweddumized.

Words near asweddumize in the dictionary

  1. asway
  2. Aswayuja
  3. asweat
  4. asweddumisation
  5. asweddumization
  6. asweddumize
  7. asweddumized
  8. asweddumizes
  9. asweddumizing
  10. asweep
  11. aswel

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