urbanize
urbanize
Definition
ur·ban·ize (ʉr′bə nīz′)
transitive verb -·ized′, -·iz′·ing
- to change from rural to urban in character; make like or characteristic of a city
- Rare to make urbane
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.
Browse dictionary entries near urbanize
- urbanity
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- urbanism
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- urban renewal
- urban planning
- Urban II
- urban
- Urawa
- urbanized
- urbanologist
- urbi et orbi
- urbia
- urceolate
- urchin
- urd
- Urdu
- -ure
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