petrolize

Verb

petrolize (third-person singular simple present petrolizes, present participle petrolizing, simple past and past participle petrolized)

1. (transitive) To treat (water) with kerosene in order to exterminate mosquitoes.
   • Over a four-year period the RF led a large-scale assault on yellow fever's Aedes aegypti mosquito vector, organizing a small army of Mexican and American doctors and local assistants and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to spray, petrolize, drain, fill, and deposit larvicidal fishes in...2003, Diego Armus, Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS
2. (transitive) To convert into a petroleum-based economy.
   • Once oil accounts for 30 percent of a nation's exports, the money petrolizes the place, the same way human slavery changed Rome, Brazil, and the U.S. South.2012, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude, page 182
   • Despite the efforts taken to forestall them, Mexico found itself with all the symptoms of a “petrolized” economy.2014, Douglas C. Bennett, Transnational Corporations versus the State