MEANING
To make or become suburban through residential development, outward expansion, or related settlement changes.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- suburbanize an area
- a suburbanizing district
On the page
The district suburbanized while the village street remained recognizable.
They suburbanized the land before widening its only access road.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- suburbanize
- Past tense
- suburbanized
- Past participle
- suburbanized
- Present participle
- suburbanizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- suburbanize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are suburbanizing
- Present perfect
- have/has suburbanized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been suburbanizing
- Past
- suburbanized
- Past continuous
- was/were suburbanizing
- Past perfect
- had suburbanized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been suburbanizing
- Future
- will suburbanize
- Future continuous
- will be suburbanizing
- Future perfect
- will have suburbanized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been suburbanizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Forms: suburbanize; suburbanizes; suburbanized; suburbanized; suburbanizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: suburbanizes.
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