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McAdamise

McAdamise is the alternative spelling of macadamize.

Meaning of 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
    Synonyms:
    macadam

Forms of McAdamise

third-person singular presentMcAdamises
present participleMcAdamising
past participleMcAdamised
pastMcAdamised

Origin of McAdamise

From McAdam + -ise.

Questions about McAdamise

What is McAdamise the alternative spelling of?
McAdamise is the alternative spelling of macadamize.

Words near McAdamise in the dictionary

  1. McAbee
  2. McAbees
  3. MCAC
  4. MCAD
  5. McAdam
  6. McAdamise
  7. McAdamised
  8. McAdamises
  9. McAdamising
  10. McAdamization
  11. McAdamize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: McAdamise (page history and authors); macadamize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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