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plasticize

[ plas-tuh-sahyz ]

verb (used with or without object)

plasticized, plasticizing.
  1. to render or become plastic.


plasticize

/ ˈæɪˌɪ /

verb

  1. to make or become plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌپˈپDz, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • t··tDz noun
  • ܲ·t· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of plasticize1

First recorded in 1925–30; plastic + -ize
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

It’s not slickly stylized, ironic or plasticized as so much current animation can be.

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“I don’t want a plasticized world,” she said.

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“We live in a society that kind of has plasticized everything we have. We’re all trying to look 25 or whatever and we’ve forgotten the beauty of the other side of that.”

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Like an updated Pleistocene woolly mammoth trapped in an ice floe or ancient arthropods caught in tree resin, the plasticized clothing is caught between an industrial past and its faltering present.

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The butt of a cigarette is primarily the filter, made of a type of plasticized cellulose acetate.

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