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)
- 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
- Lo there what mix’d conditions run!
Forms of McAdamise
| third-person singular present | McAdamises |
|---|---|
| present participle | McAdamising |
| past participle | McAdamised |
| past | McAdamised |
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
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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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