Mechanize

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  • transitive verb. To equip with machinery.
  • transitive verb. To equip (a military unit) with motor vehicles, such as tanks and trucks.
  • transitive verb. To make automatic or unspontaneous; render routine or monotonous.
  • transitive verb. To produce by or as if by machines.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To render mechanical; bring into the form of mechanism; form mechanically; bring into a mechanical state or condition.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cause to be mechanical.
  • transitive verb. To introduce machinery into (a process) in order to reduce human effort or improve uniformity or quality of the result
  • transitive verb. To equip (an armed force) with tanks or other vehicles.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To equip something with machinery.
  • verb. To equip a military unity with tanks and other armed vehicles.
  • verb. To make something routine, automatic or monotonous.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make monotonous; make automatic or routine
  • verb. make mechanical
  • verb. equip with armed and armored motor vehicles
  • Word Usage
    "Whether in the long run we should go onto mechanize is a question on which I do not wish to dogmatize, but I am certain that the improvement of agriculture in Asia should start with the extension of modern science to agriculture, rather than with mechanization."
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    alter  change  equip  fit  fit out  
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