macadamize

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Several correspondents sent me what they believed to be such verbs; however, with one exception, they remembered words having suffixes (like macadamize).

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  1. transitive verb To construct or pave (a road) with macadam.

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  • Several correspondents sent me what they believed to be such verbs; however, with one exception, they remembered words having suffixes (like macadamize). —  OUPblog
  • They exerted great influence in inducing communities to macadamize roads, for which the passing of the stage-coach and the spread of railroads had diminished the demand. —  History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)
  • The continent was crossed, the Gulf reached, and the road indicated by the hardy pioneers, which their successors will find it comparatively easy to level and macadamize. —  Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
  • In the dense forest, where sunshine never comes, rocks, mud, and fallen trees in rapid alternation macadamize the path, save where it turns up the bed of a babbling brook. —  The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
  • Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832
 

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  1. from Macadam, the name of the inventor, + -ize. The F. macadamiser is from English
 

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/mækˈædəmaɪz/
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