MEANING
To introduce carbon into a material, especially the surface of steel, to change its properties.
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Words that belong together
- carburize steel
- a carburized surface
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The records showed that the steel surface had been carburized.
The inspector compared the carburized region with the untreated core.
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Word forms
- Base
- carburize
- Past tense
- carburized
- Past participle
- carburized
- Present participle
- carburizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- carburize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are carburizing
- Present perfect
- have/has carburized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been carburizing
- Past
- carburized
- Past continuous
- was/were carburizing
- Past perfect
- had carburized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been carburizing
- Future
- will carburize
- Future continuous
- will be carburizing
- Future perfect
- will have carburized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been carburizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: carburize; carburizes; carburized; carburized; carburizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: carburizes.
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