bituminize

especially British, bi·tu·mi·nise

[bahy-too-muh-nahyz, -tyoo-, bih-]

verb (used with object)

bituminized, bituminizing 

1. to convert into or treat with bitumen.

bituminize

/ bɪˈtjuːmɪˌnaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to treat with or convert into bitumen

Other Word Forms

• bituminization noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bituminize¹

1745–55; < Latin bitūmin- (stem of bitūmen ) bitumen + -ize

Example Sentences

Among the more recent in formation of fossil vegetables, are the bituminized woods; these are often buried to great depths by diluvian action, but are never found in perfect rock.

From Project Gutenberg

And there are stranger things than these,—fragments of spiced and bituminized humanity to be shown to visitors who are not nervous, nor given to midnight terrors.

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