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urbanize Definition

ur·ban·ize (ʉrbə nīz′)

transitive verb -·ized′, -·iz′·ing

  1. to change from rural to urban in character; make like or characteristic of a city
  2. Rare to make urbane

urbanize Related Forms
ur′·bani·za·tion noun
urbanize Usage Examples

Object

  • society: In our modern, urbanized society, many like to imagine their own existence is bloodless, clean, and sanitary.
  • area: One method has been to allow inner cities to annex the surrounding urbanized areas.
  • world: In the urbanized world we are all busy creating, the easiest primary vehicle of social control is likely be fear.
  • country: Britain was by the eve of the First World War the most industrialized and urbanized country in the world.
  • terrain: Military operations on urbanized terrain require detailed planning that provides for decentralized execution.
  • nation: Britain became the first and for some time the only fully urbanized nation.

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: Messel Pit lies in the highly urbanized Frankfurt am Main area, a densely populated region.
  • increasingly: With the south of England becoming increasingly urbanized the Garou concentrated in the North.
  • fully: Britain became the first and for some time the only fully urbanized nation.

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