ruralized
ruralized is the simple past and past participle of ruralize.
Meaning of ruralize
Verb
ruralize (third-person singular simple present ruralizes, present participle ruralizing, simple past and past participle ruralized)
- To make rural; to give a rural character to (something or someone).
- the curling cloud / Of city smoke, by distance ruralised1799, William Wordsworth, The Prelude, London: Moxon, published 1850, Book 1, Introduction, p. 7
- To become rural; to take up residence or spend time in the country.
- I shall certainly attend your Farce, if in town; but as ’t is possible I shall ruralize this week, I will have no orders of you till next week.c. 1822, Charles Lamb, undated letter to John Howard Payne in The Letter of Charles Lamb, 1814-1825, Boston: The Bibliophile Society, Volume 4, pp. 197-198
- Synonyms:
- rusticate
Questions about ruralized
- What is ruralized the simple past and past participle of?
- Ruralized is the simple past and past participle of ruralize.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ruralized (page history and authors); ruralize (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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