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texturize

American  
[teks-chuh-rahyz] / ˈtɛks tʃəˌraɪz /
especially British, texturise

verb (used with object)

texturized, texturizing
  1. to give texture or a particular texture to.

    texturized yarn.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of texturize

First recorded in 1945–50; texture + -ize

Example Sentences

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Finally, the scientists texturize the meat by mixing, heating or shearing it—GOOD Meat uses an extruder—and press it into nugget or cutlet shape.

From Scientific American Jun. 30, 2023

Lithgow gives "an intelligent, always beautifully spoken performance," Green wrote, but the staging as a whole "almost entirely lacks the lively small gestures that texturize a play's surface."

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2014

Many consumers with texturized hair depend on oils such as Mielle’s to hydrate their curls.

From Washington Post Jan. 5, 2023

As the days, weeks, and months stretched on with pitifully little human contact, tracking mundane activities distracted me from the isolation, texturized the monotony, made the emptiness seem full.

From Slate Mar. 10, 2021

It’s sort of like that, but a texturized black version of it.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2020

Dave Friedberg, the founder of the Production Board, an incubator for alternative-protein companies, noted the expense of heme and texturized soy protein.

From The New Yorker Sep. 23, 2019

Gen 1 handlebars have a golden 40 mm tube with a black clamp and texturized gray end cover.

From Seattle Times Sep. 22, 2017

“Powders and texturizing sprays remove oil and add roughness at the scalp to revive volume and shape.”

From Seattle Times Jun. 13, 2019

The kit includes a dry shampoo foam, volume spray and texturizing hairspray in a cute zippered pouch.

From Fox News Nov. 28, 2018

So he keeps at it — bending, texturizing steel, drawing color out of copper on pieces he sells in galleries in Lincoln and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

From Washington Times Mar. 22, 2015

And Oprah's specialty is texturizing those who have already been dismissed as monsters.

From Time Apr. 30, 2010

This was made possible by a process called texturizing, which twists the smooth synthetic filaments into curls that give them bulk and resiliency.

From Time Magazine Archive

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