bituminise

Questions about bituminise

What does bituminise mean?

bituminise means "treat with bitumen".

How many syllables are in bituminise?

bituminise has 4 syllables and divides as bi-tu-mi-nise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bituminise?

Close synonyms include bituminize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bituminise a common word?

bituminise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.