Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
to ebonize

to ebonize

9.9
To make wood or other material look like ebony
  • verb
  • /ˈɛbəˌnaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : 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
19 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
9.9
to blacken
19 3.4
to darken
63 3.3
to stain
113 3.2
to tint
24 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.