ˈmekəˌnīz transitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Usage: see -ize
Etymology: mechan- + -ize
1. : to give the quality or structure of a machine to: as
a. archaic : to reduce to orderly systematic method or procedure
b. : to render automatic or routine : impart a deadening monotony to : deprive of spontaneity
Americans have mechanized their emotions and standardized their ideas — W.G.Carleton
2.
a. : to equip with machinery ; especially : to substitute mechanical processes for human or animal labor in
shuts down marginal coal mines and mechanizes many of the rest, with resultant unemployment for miners — E.A.Lahey
b. : to equip (a military force) with armed and armored motor vehicles (as tanks and self-propelled cannon) — distinguished from motorize
c. : to provide with mechanical power
mechanized weapons
3.
a. : to produce or reproduce by machine (an effect normally or basically produced directly by man)
an enormous advantage … over the more mechanized stimuli of the motion picture — Marc Connelly
now music is mechanized in its full tonal range — Siegfried Giedion
b. : to devise or create with undue reliance on technique or mechanics
fail because of an application of formula, call it mechanized plotting — W.T.Scott