marmorize
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marmorize (third-person singular simple present marmorizes, present participle marmorizing, simple past and past participle marmorized)
- (transitive, geology) To transform into marble.
- 1908, Adolph Knopf, Geology of the Seward Peninsula Tin Deposits, Alaska[1], page 44:
- The principal effect of this intrusion has been to marmorize the surrounding limestone, though locally some large masses of contact-metamorphic minerals have been formed.