macadamize
verb (used with object)
to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.
macadamise
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a variation of
macadamize.
Example Sentences
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On the model of tantalise, from the punishment of Tantalus, we have bowdlerise, from Bowdler, who published an expurgated "family Shakespeare" in 1818; cf. macadamise.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
The carriage road, which it is intended to macadamise, is about 30 feet wide, and running parallel with it on either side is an enclosure 50 feet wide, to be planted with shade trees.
From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
Finally our evacuating army had to macadamise its unmolested route down the passes by bribes to the hillmen, and the result of the second Afghan war was about as barren as that of the first.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Archibald Forbes
Do macadamise the frown from your brow in order to receive them.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
