turbanize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make more turban-like.
verb
To convert to the wearing of turbans or, by extension, to increase the percentage of arabs in a population.
verb
To improve efficiency by scraping off scale from steel alloy pipes.
Example Sentences
- "Lord, girl. What's happened to your hair. Nappy. Kinky. Turbanize it."
- "Among class- or status-conscious spectators in the Whitefriars Theater, might not Morose's transformation into a shop sign (perhaps just a few doors down from the theater on Fleet Street) get a bigger, or more mocking, laugh than the turbanized Morose earlier in the play?"
- "As she walks, she dries her beautiful blonde hair. She turbanizes her head and snaps it back."
- "The most interesting point in these testimonies is that they saw that Goodarzi had an Amameh on his head, and wondered who could have turbanized him."
- "Soon after there arose a fashion of wearing an imitation of the turbanized hood, also called a bourrelet — a padded circlet covered with cloth, to which were attached what appeared to be the extremities of a hood."
- "Fashion attractions in bathing caps Peak demand is expected this year for the new bathing caps which have been turbanized, beflowered, polka dotted and otherwise glamorized as they never were before."
Etymology
Etymology tree English turban Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English turbanize From turban + -ize.