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to ebonize

to ebonize

1 9.9
To make wood or other material look like ebony
  • verb
  • /ˈɛbəˌnaɪz/
  • Specialized
: ebonizar
  • She decided to ebonize the wooden chair.

Examples

  • They used a special dye to ebonize the wood, giving it a shiny, dark finish.

  • To match the existing décor, she asked the carpenter to ebonize the bookshelf.

  • The craftsman decided to ebonize the chair legs for a more elegant appearance.

  • Don't ebonize too much!

  • He decided to ebonize the old wooden furniture to give it a modern, sleek look.

  • To achieve a striking contrast, she chose to ebonize the shelves in her living room.

  • The craftsman used a special technique to ebonize the wood, making it resemble rich ebony.

Synonyms

to blacken
vsto ebonize
16 3.4

To make something dark or to become dark, for example walls after a fire

is a deliberate stain or treatment to make material look like ebony rather than general darkening

How Dark

to ebonize
  • Specialized
1 9.9
to blacken
16 3.4
to darken
38 3.3
to stain
46 3.2
to tint
6 3.6

Surface Forms

ebonize infinitive
ebonized past
ebonized past participle
ebonizing present participle
ebonizes third person singular

Morphology

ebonize = ebony (transparent) = ebon + ize

The verb is a regular verb-forming -ize attached to 'ebon/ebony', meaning 'to make black like ebony', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Ebonize comes from the word ebony, the very dark wood, plus the ending -ize, which means 'to make'. So to ebonize something is to make it look like black, shiny ebony.