metallicize

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verb

To make metallic.

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Meanings

verbmetallicize (third-person singular simple present metallicizes, present participle metallicizing, simple past and past participle metallicized)

present singular third person metallicizes · participle present metallicizing · participle past metallicized · past metallicized

  1. transitiveTo make metallic.

    Designers tend to get noticed when they make big things: theres an enthusiastic but ultimately limited market for, say, his Mirror Ball, S-Chair or the new Slab Table (an oak table, metallicized to a mirror finish, which he showed at the Milan Furniture Fair last spring).

    2007 November 4, Edward Helmore, “Re-Arranging the Furniture”, in New York Times

Origin

From metallic + -ize.

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APA

metallicize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metallicize

MLA

“metallicize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metallicize. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metallicize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metallicize.

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