Usually means: Transform rural areas into suburbs.
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  1. suburbanize: Merriam-Webster
  2. suburbanize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. suburbanize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. suburbanize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. suburbanize: Vocabulary.com
  6. suburbanize: Wordnik
  7. suburbanize: Wiktionary
  8. suburbanize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. suburbanize: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. suburbanize: Dictionary.com
  11. suburbanize: Rhymezone
  12. suburbanize: FreeDictionary.org
  13. suburbanize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. suburbanize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.

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suburbanise, rurbanize, urbanize, urbanise, metropolitanize, metropolitanise, ruralize, townify, ruralise, urban-renew, more...

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suburbanise, rurbanize, urbanize, urbanise, metropolitanize, metropolitanise, ruralize, townify, ruralise, urban-renew, more...



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