gardenizev.
/ˈɡɑːdnʌɪz/, /ˈɡɑːdn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrd(ə)ˌnaɪz/ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden [verb (intransitive)]
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1830 C. Mathews Let. 16 Oct. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) IV. iii. 61 A boor, who gardenizes and milks.
2. transitive. To make into or similar to a garden; to provide with green space; (also) to make (land, soil, etc.) productive. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden [verb (transitive)]
garden1575
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1847 A. J. Davis Princ. of Nature iii. 782 All rest even while they are beautifying and gardenizing the soil.
1887 Voice (N.Y.) (1888) 5 Jan. 2 [God] has promised that this world shall be gardenized and all evil extirpated.
1891 Graphic 24 Oct. 491/3 It is to be wished something could be done in the way of ‘gardenising’..Trafalgar Square.
1991 E. Friedman et al. Chinese Village, Socialist State viii. 196 Wugong village..began a ten-year project to..turn its thirty mu of dry riverbed into flat and fertile fields, to ‘gardenize’ the land.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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