agriculturize

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Etymology

From agriculture + -ize.

Verb

agriculturize (third-person singular simple present agriculturizes, present participle agriculturizing, simple past and past participle agriculturized)

  1. (transitive) To convert (land) for agricultural use.
    The settlers agriculturized the forest to grow crops.
  2. (transitive) To convert (a community) to use agriculture (rather than hunting and gathering, or industry, etc).

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