Meanings
verbasweddumize (third-person singular simple present asweddumizes, present participle asweddumizing, simple past and past participle asweddumized)
present singular third person asweddumizes · participle present asweddumizing · participle past asweddumized · past asweddumized · alternative asweddumise
- Sri LankaTo prepare unproductive land for cultivation (especially of rice).
[…] of a party who asweddumizes another's lands with his assent...
1862, Owen W. C. Morgan, editor, A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court Sitting at Colombo, Since the Promulgation of the Charter of 1833, Colombo: Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, page xlvii
Origin
From Sinhalese අස්වැද්දුම (aswædduma) + -ize. First attested in 1857.
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