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to vegetize

to vegetize

7.6
Change a meal to use plants instead of meat and other animal foods
  • verb
  • /ˈvɛdʒɪˌtaɪz/
  • Neologism
: vegetarizar
  • She decided to vegetize her diet to lead a healthier lifestyle and reduce her environmental impact.

Examples

  • With the rise of veganism, more people are looking for ways to vegetize traditional recipes.

  • They vegetize you.

    Twelve Monkeys (1995)

  • Many restaurants now offer options to vegetize your meal by substituting meat with plant-based ingredients.

Surface Forms

vegetize infinitive
vegetized past
vegetized past participle
vegetizing present participle
vegetizes third person singular

Morphology

vegetize = vegetable (semi-transparent) = veget + ize

While the base 'vegetable' is clear, the verb form 'vegetize' involves a specific action of converting meals to be plant-based, which may not be immediately obvious.

Etymology

The word vegetize comes from the root veget- meaning 'plant', as in vegetable and vegetarian, and the ending -ize meaning 'to make'. So to vegetize a meal is to 'make' it plant-based or replace animal foods with plants.