petrolize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To treat (water) with kerosene in order to exterminate mosquitoes. transitive
    — Over a four-year period the RF led a large-scale assault on yellow fever's Aedes aegypti mosquito vector, organizing a small army of Mexican and American doctors and local assistants and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to spray, petrolize, drain, fill, and deposit larvicidal fishes in virtually every home, breeding site, and stagnant water source in the region of Veracruz.
  2. To convert into a petroleum-based economy. transitive
    — Once oil accounts for 30 percent of a nation's exports, the money petrolizes the place, the same way human slavery changed Rome, Brazil, and the U.S. South.

词形变化

petrolizes present,singular,third-person petrolizing participle,present petrolized participle,past petrolized past

词汇关系

相关词
petrolization

词源

From petrol + -ize.
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