marbleize

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marble +‎ -ize

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marbleize (third-person singular simple present marbleizes, present participle marbleizing, simple past and past participle marbleized)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) look like marble; to marble.
    • 2022 November 27, Barney Ronay, “Welcome to Lusail: Lego-city of the gods and one of the strangest places on earth”, in The Guardian[1]:
      And later that evening, speeding along the marbleised esplanade towards the lights of Winter Wonderland, a machine voice can be heard emerging from some hidden grill.
  2. (intransitive) To come to look like marble; to marble.

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