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English Dictionary: macadamize by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
macadamize
v
  1. surface with macadam; "macadam the road" [syn: macadamize, macadamise, tarmac]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Macadamize \Mac*ad"am*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Macadamized};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Macadamizing}.] [From John Loudon McAdam,
      who introduced the process into Great Britain in 1816.]
      To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so
      as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
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