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mechanicize

mechanicize is the dated form of mechanize.

Meaning of mechanize

Verb

mechanize (third-person singular simple present mechanizes, present participle mechanizing, simple past and past participle mechanized)

  1. To equip something with machinery.
  2. To equip a military unit with tanks and other armed vehicles.
  3. To make something routine, automatic or monotonous.
    • The engineering department of the Sinkiang Posts and Telecommunications Control Bureau fully utilized both native and foreign methods to carry out innovation and technical revolution. About 80 percent of its line work are now mechanized. A remote control switch for the radio transmitter was...1960 June 3 [1960 April 6], “Technical Revolution Promoted in Bureaus”, in Weekly Report on Communist China, number 28, Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, translation of original by...

Forms of mechanicize

third-person singular presentmechanicizes
present participlemechanicizing
past participlemechanicized
pastmechanicized

Questions about mechanicize

What is mechanicize the dated form of?
Mechanicize is the dated form of mechanize.

Words near mechanicize in the dictionary

  1. mechanicalness
  2. mechanicals
  3. mechanician
  4. mechanicians
  5. mechanicism
  6. mechanicize
  7. mechanicized
  8. mechanicizes
  9. mechanicizing
  10. mechanick
  11. mechanicke

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