Usually means: Chemically treating rubber to harden.
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  1. vulcanize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vulcanize: Merriam-Webster
  3. vulcanize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vulcanize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vulcanize: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vulcanize: Vocabulary.com
  7. vulcanize: Wordnik
  8. vulcanize: Wiktionary
  9. vulcanize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vulcanize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vulcanize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vulcanize: Dictionary.com
  13. vulcanize: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Vulcanize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Vulcanize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. vulcanize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. vulcanize: Rhymezone
  18. Vulcanize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. vulcanize: FreeDictionary.org
  20. vulcanize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. vulcanize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vulcanize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vulcanize: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vulcanize: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vulcanize)

verb:  (transitive) To treat rubber with heat and (usually) sulfur to harden it and make it more durable.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo such treatment.

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