Meaning

3 senses

  1. To equip something with machinery.

    mechanisieren

    механизи́роватьmexanizírovatʹ

    механізува́тиmexanizuváty

    equip with armed and armored motor vehicles

  2. To equip a military unit with tanks and other armed vehicles.

  3. To make something routine, automatic or monotonous.

    make monotonous; make automatic or routine

Examples

1 sentences

  1. But unlike Soviet collectives, corporate farms are highly mechanized and rely on few people.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to equip with machinery:
Русский
By meaning 1
to equip with machinery:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to equip with machinery:

Forms

mechanizes, mechanizing, mechanized, mechanized
Base formmechanize · to mechanize
3rd person singularmechanizes
Present participlemechanizing
Past simplemechanized
Past participlemechanized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymechanize
he, she, itmechanizes

Past simpleLesson

all personsmechanized

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mechanize

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make mechanical:mechanise
  • make monotonous; make automatic or routine:mechanise
  • equip with armed and armored motor vehicles:mechanisemotorizemotorise

Word family

7 related words
Relatedmechanization
Deriveddemechanizemechanizabilitymechanizablemechanizerremechanizeunmechanize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mechanicalB1mechanicallymechanicsmechanismC1medmedalA2meddle

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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