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autumnize en · VERB

Etymology

From autumn + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To prepare (something) for autumn weather.
2. (transitive) To give the appearance of autumn; to make autumnal.
   • I like to set the Thanksgiving table and autumnize the house almost as much as I like to cook the Thanksgiving dinner. 2013, Bonny Wolf, Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories, page 130:
   • When first the maple begins to autumnize the grove, the extremities of the boughs alone change their colour, but all the internal and more sheltered parts still retain their verdure. 1829, John Leonard Knapp, The Journal of a Naturalist, page 106:

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