motorize (v.)

  1. 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 ]

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