mechanize

Other forms of mechanize

past tense

mechanized·

present participle

mechanizing·

third person

mechanizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mechanize

What does mechanize mean?

mechanize means "equip with armed and armored motor vehicles". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mechanize?

mechanize has 3 syllables: mec-ha-nize. The stress falls on "mec". In IPA it is /ˈmɛkəˌnaɪz/.

What is another word for mechanize?

Close synonyms include mechanise, motorize, motorise, mechanise, mechanise. 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 mechanize a common word?

mechanize 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.

What rhymes with mechanize?

35 words rhyme with mechanize. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.