mechanize
verb (used with object)
to make mechanical.
mechanise
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a variation of
mechanize.
Example Sentences
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As well as falls in local government education the were also declines in retail roles, including in wholesale stores, hypermarkets, gas stations and general mechanise shops.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Despite several proposals to mechanise the process, Friedrichs-Friedländer insists it remain manual.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2019
From the early 1800s, tinkerers tried to find ways to mechanise typesetting, which would require less motion to pick and arrange type in order, and sometimes to distribute it back into its cases.
From Economist ● Mar. 30, 2018
Without the capital to mechanise, workers must do everything on his 15-hectare farm by hand.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2017
But if we must be told, sometimes, Ladies have limbs, then that your rhymes May not offend or fog any, Don't mechanise a maiden's charms; Leave "polishing" to legs and arms Of walnut or mahogany.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
