"laterize" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "laterizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laterizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laterized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laterized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "laterize (third-person singular simple present laterizes, present participle laterizing, simple past and past participle laterized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, Mining Magazine - Volume 25, page 376:",
          "text": "Among the former quartz reefs are the most obvious,since they do not laterize and often stand out in bold relief from the red soil surrounding them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, The Indochina Story: A Fully Documented Account, page 115:",
          "text": "Thirty percent of Vietnamese soil has the potential to laterize.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Thomas Duval Roberts, Benjamin Nimer, Area handbook for Ivory Coast, page 44:",
          "text": "They are subject, however, to heavy leaching, and unless protected by an ample covering of vegetation, they too tend to laterize.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To convert to laterite."
      ],
      "id": "en-laterize-en-verb-ZSy4mDr5",
      "links": [
        [
          "convert",
          "convert"
        ],
        [
          "laterite",
          "laterite"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "laterization"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "laterise"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "laterize"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "laterizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laterizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laterized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laterized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "laterize (third-person singular simple present laterizes, present participle laterizing, simple past and past participle laterized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "laterization"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, Mining Magazine - Volume 25, page 376:",
          "text": "Among the former quartz reefs are the most obvious,since they do not laterize and often stand out in bold relief from the red soil surrounding them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, The Indochina Story: A Fully Documented Account, page 115:",
          "text": "Thirty percent of Vietnamese soil has the potential to laterize.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Thomas Duval Roberts, Benjamin Nimer, Area handbook for Ivory Coast, page 44:",
          "text": "They are subject, however, to heavy leaching, and unless protected by an ample covering of vegetation, they too tend to laterize.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To convert to laterite."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "convert",
          "convert"
        ],
        [
          "laterite",
          "laterite"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "laterise"
    }
  ],
  "word": "laterize"
}