SUBURBANIZE

suburbanize, suburbanise

(verb) make suburban in character; “highly suburbanized cities”

suburbanize, suburbanise

(verb) take on suburban character; “the city suburbanized”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

suburbanize (third-person singular simple present suburbanizes, present participle suburbanizing, simple past and past participle suburbanized)

(transitive) To make suburban; to convert or adapt to a suburb.

Source: Wiktionary



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UNDERLAY

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An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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