junglize

present singular third person junglizes · participle present junglizing · participle past junglized · past junglized

1. To make jungle-like.

   It began to junglize planets as a matter of course because primeval worlds provided the most life force.

   1952, Alfred Elton Van Vogt, Mission: Interplanetary, page 173

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   Adjusting each time to their junglized air becomes a matter of will, a shedding of self-consciousness, a necessary fall back to naked glee, the kind children have at first sighting these quasi-prelapsarian birds.

   2002, Richard Foerster, “Hummingbird Exhibit”, in Double Going: Poems, page 34

   This first little volume, was created with the hope to help nursing the unaware victims of this trend: plants! Plant Therapy aims to support beginners and to inspire professionals who "junglize" their homes, shops or offices; it's a precious ally in creating the perfect indoor environment for all types of plants, using heat, shade, humidity or ventilation, making it possible for plants to thrive.

   2019, Kladi, Plant Therapy: In Illustrated Guide to Taking Care of Indoor Plants

2. entertainmentTo incorporate elements of jungle (precursor of drum and bass), such as rhythmic complexity, energetic beats, and heavy basslines.

   He had a remarkably wild band, really Ellington-oriented but more junglized. "

   1998, The Music of Billy May: A Discography, page 4

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   Working in Britain may distance him from the latest developments in Jamaican dancehall, but it keeps the Prof hip to the latest trends from clubland: Fraser's late-'90s output includes plenty of junglized ragga and Trix In The Mix finds him venturing into two-step garage.

   2001 February, “Mad Professor”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 90, page 71

   But in London itself, garage actually regressed a bit, reverting to what the music sounded like before the prefix 'speed' got added to it: a de-junglized sound known as 'urban house' and then simply 'funky house'.

   2013, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture

3. offensiveTo incorporate elements of African-American culture.

   Every sensible adult has observed the attempts being made to junglize our American youngsters .

   1957, “Junglizing Our Youth”, in The Cross and the Flag, volume 15, page 8

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   He would copy "the South African plan of apartheid," "imprison all anarchists and traitors on the order of Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown," and "declare martial law in a least twenty of our great junglized cities ."

   1991, Andrew Frank Johnson, Brian A. Jenkins, The Old Right, the New Right, and the State, page 43