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boulevardizing

boulevardizing is the present participle and gerund of boulevardize.

Meaning of boulevardize

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)

Questions about boulevardizing

What is boulevardizing the present participle and gerund of?
Boulevardizing is the present participle and gerund of boulevardize.

Words near boulevardizing in the dictionary

  1. boulevardiering
  2. boulevardiers
  3. boulevardize
  4. boulevardized
  5. boulevardizes
  6. boulevardizing
  7. boulevardlike
  8. boulevards
  9. bouleverse
  10. bouleversed
  11. bouleversement

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