1. To introduce machinery into an activity or perform it through machines.
2. To make an activity routine or mechanically organized.
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Words that belong together
- mechanize production
- mechanize a task
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The workshop mechanized the task while retaining operator control.
The procedure was mechanized before its timing was automated.
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Word forms
- Base
- mechanize
- Past tense
- mechanized
- Past participle
- mechanized
- Present participle
- mechanizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- mechanize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are mechanizing
- Present perfect
- have/has mechanized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been mechanizing
- Past
- mechanized
- Past continuous
- was/were mechanizing
- Past perfect
- had mechanized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been mechanizing
- Future
- will mechanize
- Future continuous
- will be mechanizing
- Future perfect
- will have mechanized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been mechanizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: mechanize; mechanizes; mechanized; mechanized; mechanizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: mechanizes.
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