macadamize

Verb

macadamize (third-person singular simple present macadamizes, present participle macadamizing, simple past and past participle macadamized)

1. (American and Oxford British spelling) To cover (a road) with macadam (small, broken stones) so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
   • Lo there what mix’d conditions run!
     The orphan lad; the widow’s son;
     And Fortune’s favour’d care—
     The wealthy born, for whom she hath
     Mac-Adamized the future path—
     The Nabob’s pamper’d heir!1824 April 10, Thomas Hood, “Ode on a distant Prospect of Clapham Academy”, in New Monthly Magazine, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2016, pages 355–357
   • He pointed to the macadamized streets about that great hospital, and said, “The managers applied to the Emperor to macadamize the streets, to prevent the noise, and he did it. He does all that is asked of him.” Some say, however, that the Emperor is so ready to macadamize, because paving stones are...1860, Review of Erastus C. Benedict, A Run Through Europe, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume 21, p. 546

   Synonyms:

   macadam