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RUBBERIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rubberize mean?
• RUBBERIZE (verb)
The verb RUBBERIZE has 1 sense:
1. coat or impregnate with rubber
Familiarity information: RUBBERIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they rubberize ... he / she / it rubberizes
Past simple: rubberized
Past participle: rubberized
-ing form: rubberizing
... he / she / it rubberizes Past simple: rubberized
Past participle: rubberized
-ing form: rubberizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coat or impregnate with rubber
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
rubberize fabric for rain coats
Hypernyms (to "rubberize" is one way to...):
coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
rubber (an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products)
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