cyberize

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verb

To adapt to digital technology or culture.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

verbcyberize (third-person singular simple present cyberizes, present participle cyberizing, simple past and past participle cyberized)

present singular third person cyberizes · participle present cyberizing · participle past cyberized · past cyberized

  1. intransitivetransitiveTo adapt to digital technology or culture.
  2. rareliteratureTo make into a cyborg; to fit with a cybernetic implant or prosthesis.

    But he did report to Starfleet HQ his encounter with a race of cyberized humanoids who are out to assimilate everyone, and T'Pol's estimate that said race would likely return during the 24th century.

    2009 May 8, "Tim Bruening" (username), "Re: Archer Vs Borg", on alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise and alt.humor.puns, Usenet
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    At this Nightshade mutters under his breath and begins to metamorphose. Slowly more metal appears on him, and his looks change drastically from a pure human to a fully cyberized hunk of man and machine.

    1993 August 25, Robert Johan Enters, “Re: [ADMIN] Re: Newcomer to the Theatre...”, in alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo (Usenet)

    I don't see ItX [=Iteration X] forcefully cyberizing anyone against their will. Not only is it wildly unethical, Devices are far too valuble ^([sic]) to waste on people who will try to resist the Union.

    2000 March 21, Julian Mensch, “Re: Iteration X Conventionpage for a noble Union [*LONG*]”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet)

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
  2. Englishcyberneticclip.
  3. Englishcyber-
  4. Englishcyberize

From cyber- + -ize.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cyberize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberize.

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