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suburbanise

suburbanise is the alternative form of suburbanize.

Meaning of suburbanize

Verb

suburbanize (third-person singular simple present suburbanizes, present participle suburbanizing, simple past and past participle suburbanized)

  1. (transitive) To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.
    • Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version of it.2007 August 27, Isabel Kershner, “The Kibbutz Sheds Socialism and Gains Popularity”, in New York Times

Forms of suburbanise

third-person singular presentsuburbanises
present participlesuburbanising
past participlesuburbanised
pastsuburbanised

Origin of suburbanise

From suburban + -ise.

Questions about suburbanise

What is suburbanise the alternative form of?
Suburbanise is the alternative form of suburbanize.

Words near suburbanise in the dictionary

  1. suburban sprawls
  2. suburbandom
  3. suburbanhood
  4. suburbanisation
  5. suburbanisations
  6. suburbanise
  7. suburbanised
  8. suburbanises
  9. suburbanising
  10. suburbanism
  11. suburbanisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suburbanise (page history and authors); suburbanize (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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