The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marbleize \Mar"ble*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marbleized; p. pr. & vb. n. Marbleizing.] To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To make (something) look like marble; to marble. 2 (context intransitive English) To come to look like marble; to marble. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make (something) look like marble; to marble. 2 (context intransitive English) To come to look like marble; to marble.
WordNet
v. make something look like marble; "marbleize the fireplace" [syn: marbleise]
Usage examples of "marbleize".
Some of the residential allotments are going up in the world too: they are getting gentrified, humidified, marbleized.
He looked into the eyes of that photograph and saw right through them to the backdrop of marbleized suede every kid had to sit in front of under a hot light.
He drifted, weightless, floating above the blue and white marbleized planet, then through the low cloud layer.
It was filled with pure white marbleized softened tallow -- tasteless, colorless, odorless animal fat that had been rendered in simmering water.
The torsos of battered Greek nudes are marble, not marbleized plaster.
Blown-up action photographs hung on every surface of the marbleized gray walls.
The main passenger cabin had the look of a luxurious lounge: drapes, carpeting, glinting marbleized furniture, subdued gold lighting.
The walls were yellow, the floors a marbleized vinyl tile, tan with white streaks.
Lorenza studied her fingernails, exquisitely patterned in the latest marbleized silver and pale pink.
She ran her thumb across his lower lip, wiping off the marbleized mixture of milk and saliva.
She pulled up the stool and opened the first of the marbleized green ledgers.
I arrived at School 23 at eight-thirty the next morning carrying three marbleized notebooks, clay, salt, an old cigar box, more Magic Markers, index cards, the Spache, and the WRAT.
Around her, her crew gazed at the armada of welcoming ships on the screen and the beautiful marbleized ball of Earth in the near distance.
He peels off his jockey shorts, tosses his swords onto the crushed-velvet sofa, and steps into the marbleized amphitheatre of the shower stall.
It was filled with pure white marbleized softened tallow -- tasteless, colorless, odorless animal fat that had been rendered in simmering water.