Meanings
verbmarmorize (third-person singular simple present marmorizes, present participle marmorizing, simple past and past participle marmorized)
present singular third person marmorizes · participle present marmorizing · participle past marmorized · past marmorized
- transitivegeographyTo transform into marble.
The principal effect of this intrusion has been to marmorize the surrounding limestone, though locally some large masses of contact-metamorphic minerals have been formed.
1908, Adolph Knopf, Geology of the Seward Peninsula Tin Deposits, Alaska, page 44
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