pedestrianizev.
/pᵻˈdɛstrɪənʌɪz/, U.S. /pəˈdɛstriəˌnaɪz/ 1. intransitive. To act as a pedestrian; to go or travel on foot; to walk. Also occasionally transitive with it. Now rare.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)]
treadc897
stepc900
goeOE
gangOE
walka1375
wanderc1380
foota1425
to take to footc1440
awalkc1540
trade1547
beat it on the hoof1570
pad1610
to be (also beat, pad) upon the hoofa1616
trample1624
to pad (also pad upon) the hoof1683
ambulate1724
shank1773
stump it1803
pedestrianize1811
pedestrianate1845
tramp it1862
ankle1916
1811 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley (1858) I. 399 I intend to pedestrianize.
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 10 You must pedestrianize it for a few unmeasured miles over hill and dale.
1876 H. James Roderick Hudson xii. 442 He had been pedestrianizing for six weeks, and he was glad to rest awhile.
1887 F. T. Marzials Life Charles Dickens iv. 55 But if he would pedestrianize everywhere, London remained the walking ground of his heart.
1927 W. E. Peck Shelley I. ix. 382 Shelley had sprained his ankle and could ‘pedestrianize’ no farther.
1995 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 31 Mar. There I was on Wednesday morning, lazily pedestrianising down Princes St.
2. transitive and intransitive. To make (something) commonplace or prosaic; to produce something commonplace or unremarkable. rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > produce something commonplace
pedestrianize1838
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored [verb (intransitive)] > produce something trite or banal
pedestrianize1838
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > make trite or banal
hackney1598
commonplace1847
platitudinize1917
pedestrianize1945
banalize1949
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > make commonplace
hackney1598
vulgarize1709
commonplace1847
pedestrianize1945
banalize1949
1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. i. iii. 57 We want a designer for wood-cuts..who would pedestrianize in simple style.
1945 W. de la Mare in Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. 22 99 Genius originates what talent pedestrianizes.
3. transitive. To make accessible only to pedestrians; to make into a pedestrian precinct.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [verb (transitive)] > pedestrianize
pedestrianize1963
1963 Observer 15 Dec. 6/6 He [sc. Prof. Buchanan] even suggested that some of these central streets..should be closed to traffic and, in the jargon, pedestrianised.
1971 Hansard Lords: Official Rep. Comm. Highways Bill, 1st Sitting 28 Apr. 11/1 The need for this provision is particularly clear where the street pattern in historic towns is being redesigned, and where it is designed to ‘pedestrianise’ a street and to construct a new road to give access to shop premises.
1976 H. Stretton Capitalism, Socialism & Environment iii. 74 They encouraged public authorities to pedestrianize town centres.
1977 Listener 17 Feb. 207/3 All the streets around here—for the first time in Paris—have been pedestrianized.
2004 Transport Policy 11 6/1 The main city centre streets were not fully pedestrianised.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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