metallicize

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English

Etymology

From metallic +‎ -ize.

Verb

metallicize (third-person singular simple present metallicizes, present participle metallicizing, simple past and past participle metallicized)

  1. (transitive) To make metallic.
    • 2007 November 4, Edward Helmore, “Re-Arranging the Furniture”, in New York Times:
      Designers tend to get noticed when they make big things: theres an enthusiastic but ultimately limited market for, say, his Mirror Ball, S-Chair or the new Slab Table (an oak table, metallicized to a mirror finish, which he showed at the Milan Furniture Fair last spring).