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🤖 To make automatic 🚜 To use machines 🪖 To add vehicles
to mechanize

to mechanize

3 6.7
Give an army armed vehicles like tanks and armored trucks
  • verb
  • /ˈmɛkəˌnaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : mecanizar
  • mechanized infantry
  • mechanized forces
  • mechanized divisions

So they Russia's mainly mechanizing and also the other thing Russia doesn't tend to have NC OS non commissioned officers that they do, but they don't.

Examples

  • Sorry about the mechanized infantry; let's just call it a misunderstanding.

    Blog text (13)

  • I think we ought to use small, highly mechanized units and put our reliance on planes.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Operation downfall is going to be the largest mechanized invasion in the history of mankind.

    Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

  • In effect, a good part of the arms equipment, helicopters, fighter planes, and mechanized equipment of Peru's armed forces is obtained from the Soviet Union.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Egypt is allowed an entire mechanized or infantry division in Zone A, which abuts the Suez Canal.

    Blog text (31)

  • India's defense planners envisage the future face of its armed forces as leaner, more mechanized, and more modern.

    Academic text (1999)

  • With the potential military threat to Western Europe reduced to the Soviet ability to attack after a mobilization period of several months, NATO will no longer need to field almost entirely mechanized, combat-ready ground forces large enough to meet a short-warning mechanized invasion.

    Academic text (1991)

  • The military plans to mechanize its forces by adding advanced tanks and armored vehicles to each unit.

  • To improve combat efficiency, we decided to mechanize our artillery divisions with modern armored vehicles.

  • As part of the new strategy, the army will mechanize its ground troops to enhance their mobility and firepower.

Synonyms

to motorize
vsto mechanize
  • US
2 4.8

Give something an engine or vehicles so it moves by itself

is narrower equipping military units with armed armored motor vehicles

Antonyms

to disarm
93 3.9

To take weapons from a person or group so they cannot use them

to dismantle
64 4.2

Take something apart into separate pieces

How Motorized

to mechanize
  • Specialized
3 6.7
to transport
377 1.4
to march
85 3.3

Surface Forms

mechanize infinitive
mechanized past
mechanized past participle
mechanizing present participle
mechanizes third person singular

Morphology

mechanize = mechanical (transparent) = mechan + ize

The military sense ('equip with motorized/armored vehicles') is a straightforward application of 'make mechanical' or 'provide with machines/vehicles'.

Etymology

Mechanize comes from machine and -ize, so it means 'to give machines' to something. In war this idea is simple: to mechanize an army is to give it tanks and motor vehicles, which makes the force more mobile and powerful.