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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of maderize.

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Examples

  • Or miss one of lifes great opportunities by ordering the cheapest glass of oxidized, maderized, industrial plonk while celebrating your daughters recent acceptance to an Ivy League college?

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • Or miss one of lifes great opportunities by ordering the cheapest glass of oxidized, maderized, industrial plonk while celebrating your daughters recent acceptance to an Ivy League college?

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • The wine may: be oxidized or maderized: if it smells of grass, rancid butter, cut fruit that's been exposed to air, or bitter almonds; have gone off or turned: if it smells like vinegar, makes you wrinkle your nose, or smells like nail polish remover; be corked: if it smells like mouldy wood due to a defective cork.

    The Westmount Examiner 2009

  • It stinks of maderized Heinz malt vinegar, and still the waiter serves up attitude like I'm the high-maintenance customer from hell.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2008

  • For those who would like a list of the wine descriptors, following are the more common terms used with subjects in the experiments. acidic balanced clean aged big cloying alcoholic bitter common aromatic bland complex astringent bouquet corky austere chalky creamy baked character crisp deep lively sensuous delicate maderized sharp developed manly simple disciplined mature small dry meager smoky earthy mealy smooth elegant medium soft empty mellow solid evolved metallic sound fat mineral sour feminine moldy spicy fierce mossy steely fiery musky stiff fine noble stony finesse nutty strong firm oaky sturdy flabby odd stylish flat off succulent flowery old sugary forceful ordinary supple foxy overripe sweet fragile peppery syrupy fragrant perfumed tangy fresh positive tannic fruity powerful tart full-bodied prickly tender gassy pungent thin gay racy unbalanced gentle rare unharmonious graceful refreshing unripe grapy rich velvety hard ripe vigorous harmonious robust watery harsh rough weak hearty round wild heavy rugged withered honest salty woody hot sappy young insipid savory zestful light scented little semisweet Richard M. Lederer, Jr. Scarsdale, New York Colonial American English — Supplement

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 3 1991

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