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RUBBERIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rubberize mean? 

RUBBERIZE (verb)
  The verb RUBBERIZE has 1 sense:

1. coat or impregnate with rubberplay

  Familiarity information: RUBBERIZE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RUBBERIZE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they rubberize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it rubberizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: rubberized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: rubberized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: rubberizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Coat or impregnate with rubber

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

rubber; rubberise; rubberize

Context example:

rubberize fabric for rain coats

Hypernyms (to "rubberize" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rubber (an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products)


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