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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, motorize, motorise]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ized; -izing) Date: circa 1913 1. to equip with a motor 2. to equip with motor vehicles • motorization noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) 1 equip (troops etc.) with motor transport. 2 provide with a motor for propulsion etc. Derivatives: motorization n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Motorize Mo"tor*ize (m[=o]"t[~e]r*[imac]z), v. t. [Motor + -ize.] To substitute motor-driven vehicles, or automobiles, for the horses and horse-drawn vehicles of (a fire department, city, etc.). -- Mo`tor*i*za"tion, n.