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suburbanize

suburbanize verb: to make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.

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 suburbanize

third-person singular presentsuburbanizes
present participlesuburbanizing
past participlesuburbanized
pastsuburbanized

Origin of suburbanize

From suburban + -ize.

Questions about suburbanize

What does suburbanize mean?
Suburbanize means to make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.
What part of speech is suburbanize?
Suburbanize is a verb.
What is the past tense of suburbanize?
The past tense of suburbanize is suburbanized.

Words near suburbanize in the dictionary

  1. suburbanities
  2. suburbanitis
  3. suburbanity
  4. suburbanization
  5. suburbanizations
  6. suburbanize
  7. suburbanized
  8. suburbanizes
  9. suburbanizing
  10. suburbanly
  11. suburbanness

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