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boulevardize

boulevardize verb: to convert into boulevards.

Verb

boulevardize (third-person singular simple present boulevardizes, present participle boulevardizing, simple past and past participle boulevardized)

  1. (transitive) To convert into boulevards.
    • This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since.1864, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, The Eclectic Review (volume 7? volume 120? page 130)

Forms of boulevardize

third-person singular presentboulevardizes
present participleboulevardizing
past participleboulevardized
pastboulevardized

Origin of boulevardize

From boulevard + -ize.

Questions about boulevardize

What does boulevardize mean?
Boulevardize means to convert into boulevards.
What part of speech is boulevardize?
Boulevardize is a verb.
What is the past tense of boulevardize?
The past tense of boulevardize is boulevardized.

Words near boulevardize in the dictionary

  1. boulevardes
  2. boulevardier
  3. boulevardiered
  4. boulevardiering
  5. boulevardiers
  6. boulevardize
  7. boulevardized
  8. boulevardizes
  9. boulevardizing
  10. boulevardlike
  11. boulevards

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