meteorize
English
Etymology
meteor + -ize
Verb
meteorize (third-person singular simple present meteorizes, present participle meteorizing, simple past and past participle meteorized)
- To weather
- (poetic, archaic) To ascend in vapours; to take the form of a meteor.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for meteorize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Related terms
- meteorization