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metropolitanize
"(Usually in
pass.
). To make metropolitan in character; to give (a person) the manners, outlook, etc., of a city dweller; to urbanize (a place)", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in
Philadelphia Press
. From
metropolitan
+
-ize
.