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mechanized

mechanized is the simple past and past participle of mechanize.

Adjective

mechanized (comparative more mechanized, superlative most mechanized)

  1. Equipped with machinery.
  2. Equipped with armoured motor vehicles; compare motorized (“equipped with unarmoured vehicles”).

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...

Synonyms of mechanized

Forms of mechanized

Verb
alternative formmechanised
Adjective
comparativemore mechanized
superlativemost mechanized

Words formed from mechanized

Phrases with mechanized

Questions about mechanized

What does mechanized mean?
Mechanized means equipped with machinery.
What is mechanized the simple past and past participle of?
Mechanized is the simple past and past participle of mechanize.
What part of speech is mechanized?
Mechanized is an adjective.

Words near mechanized in the dictionary

  1. mechanizability
  2. mechanizable
  3. mechanization
  4. mechanizations
  5. mechanize
  6. mechanized
  7. mechanized cavalry
  8. mechanized infantries
  9. mechanized infantry
  10. mechanizer
  11. mechanizers

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