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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Motorize

Motorize \Mo"tor*ize\ (m[=o]"t[~e]r*[imac]z), v. t. [Motor + -ize.]

  1. To substitute motor-driven vehicles, or automobiles, for the horses and horse-drawn vehicles of (a fire department, city, etc.). [archaic] -- Mo`tor*i*za"tion, n.

  2. to equip (a piece of machinery) with a motor.

  3. to provide with automobiles or other motor vehicles; as, a motorized army division.

    Syn: mechanize.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motorize

"to furnish with a motor or motors," 1901, from motor (n.) + -ize. Related: Motorized; motorizing; motorization.

Wiktionary
motorize

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fit something with a motor. 2 (context transitive English) To supply something or someone with motor vehicles. 3 (context transitive English) To supply armoured vehicles; to mechanize.

WordNet
motorize
  1. v. equip with a motor vehicle; "The police around here are not motorized and patrol the streets on horseback"

  2. equip with a motor; "motorized scooters are now the rage"

  3. equip with armed and armored motor vehicles; "mechanize armies" [syn: mechanize, mechanise, motorise]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "motorize".

They were essentially motorized floating boxes, containing metallurgic processing plants and powered by solar batteries.

The tracked, armored, motorized forts called barrels were the best thing anyone had yet found for breaking the deadly stalemate of trench warfare.

Army Group Center, with thirty infantry divisions and fifteen panzer or motorized divisions, had pushed 450 miles from Bialystok to Smolensk.

Rudolf Krebirz carrying a bagful of written information on French motorized transports and troop deployments around the Chinese frontier near Cao Bang.

Then, taking a nylon-webbed Swiss seat from his pack, he stepped gingerly into it, locked on a carabiner with a motorized brake bar, and stepped into the well, sliding quickly to the bottom.

Miller tracts to the crowds outside the Ohio prison as the clock ticked down to Injection, little Bruce in tow, blank-faced and watching, the crowd of media and anti-Capital activists and Defarge-like picnickers milling and roiling, many T-shirts for sale, and the red-faced men in sportcoats and fezzes, oh their rage-twisted faces the same red as their fezzes as the men careened this way and that in their little cars, formations of motorized Shriners buzzing the gates of the O.

For the frugal and underfunded Dean, the closest thing to relaxation is solitary time in the backseat of his state car, a motorized luxury that he will lose when his final term as governor ends come January.

He moved away, taking a circuitous route around the motorized chuckwagon toward the makeshift tent behind the stock trailer.

Darting about the river like minnows around an old bass were motorized longboats with neat cannonball piles fore and aft of astonishingly green squash and melons.

Buses, taxis, cows, bullock-carts, bicycles, water buffalo, motorbikes, trucks, and motorized rickshaws contended for space on the overtaxed highway, with right-of-way going to the biggest vehicles and the loudest horns.

Its sidewalks were blocked by parked cars and he had to walk in the middle of the street, jumping aside every minute or so for gleaming motorized bicycles ridden by young mobsters taking fierce pleasure in revving their engines and missing the pedestrians by a hairbreadth.

The giant projection TV formerly housed here had been moved to their bedroom, while the various machines that had aided Rainey in earlier stages of her illness were now warehoused in rows: the motorized wheelchair, lifts, trapezes, an elevated bed she had given up.

Danny Pogue, however, was launched almost instantly from the sponge hump of his motorized Brahma—a tumble so spectacular that it brought three Company Cowpokes out of the bronco chute at a dead run.

The final step was to use the motorized craniotome, fitted with a bone-cutting extension, to connect the holes.

Escaping, whenever possible, from a residence in which the acrid fumes of his aunt's envy made life unbearable, and also from a college filled with other equally dislikeable smells, I mounted my motorized steed and explored the olfactory avenues of my new city.