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What is the verb for urban?

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urbanize
  1. To make something more urban in character.
  2. To take up an urban way of life.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The Educatorium project marks the first phase in a long term masterplan by OMA to modernize and urbanize the Utrecht University campus to the east of the city.”
      “But the task becomes more and more vital as our planet continues to urbanize, and as our futures intertwine ever more intricately.”
      “This led us to reflect on how we could better urbanize our information system and select tools that are capable of helping us achieve this goal.”
urbanise
  1. Alternative spelling of urbanize
  2. Examples:
    1. “That other tribes did not engage in commercial trade, or urbanise their societies, or mint coinage, is probably a combination of circumstance and choice.”
urbanises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of urbanise
urbanizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of urbanize
  2. Synonyms:
urbanised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of urbanise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Now we are a largely urbanised society, and the country roots of most people have been severed.”
      “Funny how one of the most urbanised societies on earth clings to its foundation myths.”
      “Those roads have attractions of their own but they're too urbanised, glossy, and over-rated for us.”
urbanized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of urbanize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Even in the most sophisticated urbanized area of a megacity, every human being is utterly dependent on the generosity of nature.”
      “Bilingualism is especially common among young, urbanized, professional Puerto Ricans.”
      “The ranks of the regular army were drawn overwhelmingly from the highly urbanized, heavily garrisoned northern and eastern frontier districts.”
urbanising
  1. present participle of urbanise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The tribes of southeastern Britain were actively engaged in commerce with continental Europe, urbanising their societies, and minting coinage.”
      “Meanwhile the industrialising and urbanising cities of the North gave rise to many masterpieces of social realism.”
      “Part III, Urbanising Landscape, discusses programmatic and other new approaches to significant public open space.”
urbanizing
  1. present participle of urbanize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “More than one half of Western Europe is already urbanized and there is massive urbanizing elsewhere, particularly in the developing countries.”
      “This model, however, proved to be problematic in the rapidly urbanizing environments where it was operating.”
      “We live in an urbanizing world, in which more and more children and young people live in cities.”
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