Meaning

1 senses

  1. To cover (a road) with macadam (small, broken stones) so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

    makadamisieren

    surface with macadam

Translations

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Origin

From macadam + -ize, after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam who pioneered this method

From macadam + -ize, after Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam who pioneered this method of road construction around 1820.

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Forms

macadamizes, macadamizing, macadamized, macadamized
Base formmacadamize · to macadamize
3rd person singularmacadamizes
Present participlemacadamizing
Past simplemacadamized
Past participlemacadamized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymacadamize
he, she, itmacadamizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsmacadamized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave macadamized
he, she, ithas macadamized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill macadamize

Synonyms

3 synonyms
macadam
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words
Relatedmacadam
Derivedmacadamizationmacadamizerunmacadamized

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ma'ammacmacabreC1macadamiamacaquemacaronmacaroni
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