Meanings
present singular third person mechanizes · participle present mechanizing · participle past mechanized · past mechanized · alternative mechanise
- To make something routine, automatic or monotonous.
1 more example
The engineering department of the Sinkiang Posts and Telecommunications Control Bureau fully utilized both native and foreign methods to carry out innovation and technical revolution. About 80 percent of its line work are now mechanized. A remote control switch for the radio transmitter was test-produced by the Kashgar and A-k'o-su bureaus.
1960 June 3 [1960 April 6], “Technical Revolution Promoted in Bureaus”, in Weekly Report on Communist China, number 28, Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, translation of original by Jen-min Yu-tian, →OCLC, page 16
Synonyms & antonyms
verbequip with armed and armored motor vehicles
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مَكْنَنَ
- مَكْنَنَ (maknana)to equip with machinery
Bulgarian механизи́рам
- механизи́рам (mehanizíram)to equip with machinery
Catalan mecanitzar
- mecanitzarto equip with machinery
Chinese Mandarin 機械化 /机械化
- 機械化 /机械化 (jīxièhuà)to equip with machinery
Finnish koneellistaa, mekanisoida
- koneellistaato equip with machinery
- mekanisoidato equip with machinery
- mekanisoidamilitary: to equip with vehicles
- mekaanistaato make something routine, automatic or monotonous
French mécaniser
- mécaniserto equip with machinery
German mechanisieren
- mechanisierento equip with machinery
Italian meccanizzare
- meccanizzareto equip with machinery
Japanese 機械化する
- 機械化する (kikaika suru)to equip with machinery
Korean 기계화하다
- 기계화하다 (gigyehwahada)to equip with machinery
Polish mechanizować, zmechanizować
- mechanizowaćto equip with machinery
- zmechanizowaćto equip with machinery
- mechanizowaćto make something routine, automatic or monotonous
- zmechanizowaćto make something routine, automatic or monotonous
Portuguese mecanizar
- mecanizarto equip with machinery
Russian механизи́ровать
- механизи́ровать (mexanizírovatʹ)to equip with machinery
Spanish mecanizar
- mecanizarto equip with machinery
Ukrainian механізува́ти
- механізува́ти (mexanizuváty)to equip with machinery
Cite this entry
mechanize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mechanize
“mechanize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mechanize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mechanize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mechanize.
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