junglize
verbEtymology From jungle + -ize.
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To make jungle-like.
- It began to junglize planets as a matter of course because primeval worlds provided the most life force.1952, Alfred Elton Van Vogt, Mission: Interplanetary, page 173:
- Adjusting each time to their junglized air becomes a matter of will, a shedding of self-consciousness, a necessary fall back to naked glee, the kind children have at first sighting these quasi-prelapsarian birds.2002, Richard Foerster, “Hummingbird Exhibit”, in Double Going: Poems, page 34:
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- This first little volume, was created with the hope to help nursing the unaware victims of this trend: plants! Plant Therapy aims to support beginners and to inspire professionals who "junglize" their homes, shops or offices; it's a precious ally in creating the perfect indoor environment for all types of plants, using heat, shade, humidity or ventilation, making it possible for plants to thrive.2019, Kladi, Plant Therapy: In Illustrated Guide to Taking Care of Indoor Plants:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To incorporate elements of jungle (precursor of drum and bass), such as rhythmic complexity, energetic beats, and heavy basslines.
- He had a remarkably wild band, really Ellington-oriented but more junglized. "1998, The Music of Billy May: A Discography, page 4:
- Working in Britain may distance him from the latest developments in Jamaican dancehall, but it keeps the Prof hip to the latest trends from clubland: Fraser's late-'90s output includes plenty of junglized ragga and Trix In The Mix finds him venturing into two-step garage.2001 February, “Mad Professor”, in CMJ New Music Monthly, number 90, page 71:
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- But in London itself, garage actually regressed a bit, reverting to what the music sounded like before the prefix 'speed' got added to it: a de-junglized sound known as 'urban house' and then simply 'funky house'.2013, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture:
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Offensive To incorporate elements of African-American culture.
- Every sensible adult has observed the attempts being made to junglize our American youngsters .1957, “Junglizing Our Youth”, in The Cross and the Flag, volume 15, page 8:
- He would copy "the South African plan of apartheid," "imprison all anarchists and traitors on the order of Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown," and "declare martial law in a least twenty of our great junglized cities ."1991, Andrew Frank Johnson, Brian A. Jenkins, The Old Right, the New Right, and the State, page 43:
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- junglization