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pedestrianise

pedestrianise is the alternative form of pedestrianize.

Meaning of pedestrianize

Verb

pedestrianize (third-person singular simple present pedestrianizes, present participle pedestrianizing, simple past and past participle pedestrianized)

  1. (transitive) To restrict access to (a street) to pedestrians only, disallowing motor vehicles and sometimes cyclists
    • Our trade has increased significantly since they pedestrianized the High Street.
  2. (dated, intransitive) To walk; to travel on foot.
  3. (dated, transitive) To traverse on foot.

Forms of pedestrianise

third-person singular presentpedestrianises
present participlepedestrianising
past participlepedestrianised
pastpedestrianised

Origin of pedestrianise

From pedestrian + -ise.

Questions about pedestrianise

What is pedestrianise the alternative form of?
Pedestrianise is the alternative form of pedestrianize.

Words near pedestrianise in the dictionary

  1. pedestrianating
  2. pedestrianess
  3. pedestrianesses
  4. pedestrianisation
  5. pedestrianisations
  6. pedestrianise
  7. pedestrianised
  8. pedestrianises
  9. pedestrianising
  10. pedestrianism
  11. pedestrianisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pedestrianise (page history and authors); pedestrianize (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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