bituminize

American

[bahy-too-muh-nahyz, -tyoo-, bih-] / baɪˈtu məˌnaɪz, -ˈtyu-, bɪ- /

especially British, bituminise

verb (used with object)

bituminized, bituminizing

to convert into or treat with bitumen.

bituminize British

/ bɪˈtjuːmɪˌnaɪz /

verb

(tr) to treat with or convert into bitumen

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Other Word Forms

bituminization noun

Etymology

Origin of bituminize

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

Example Sentences

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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.

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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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