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suburbanizing

suburbanizing is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about suburbanizing

What is suburbanizing the present participle and gerund of?
Suburbanizing is the present participle and gerund of suburbanize.

Words near suburbanizing in the dictionary

  1. suburbanization
  2. suburbanizations
  3. suburbanize
  4. suburbanized
  5. suburbanizes
  6. suburbanizing
  7. suburbanly
  8. suburbanness
  9. suburbans
  10. suburbed
  11. suburbia

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