"metropolise" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "metropolises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metropolising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metropolised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metropolised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "metropolise (third-person singular simple present metropolises, present participle metropolising, simple past and past participle metropolised)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "metropolize"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Walter Sydney Sichel, Bolingbroke and His Times: Period I. The reign of Queen Ann",
          "text": "Cavendish Square was part of a big scheme to metropolise Marylebone in 1715.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Governing India's Metropolises: Case Studies of Four Cities, page 194",
          "text": "In contrast with Delhi, though, this development in Hyderabad juxtaposes (and conceptually collides!) with a stronger state-led aim to 'metropolise' the management of water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Lochner Marais, Etienne Nel, Ronnie Donaldson, Secondary Cities and Development",
          "text": "Three factors complicate this push by local governments to 'metropolise'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of metropolize"
      ],
      "id": "en-metropolise-en-verb-HXsf7jZZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "metropolize",
          "metropolize#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "metropolisation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "metropolise"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "metropolises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metropolising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metropolised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metropolised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "metropolisation"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "metropolize"
        }
      ],
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        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901, Walter Sydney Sichel, Bolingbroke and His Times: Period I. The reign of Queen Ann",
          "text": "Cavendish Square was part of a big scheme to metropolise Marylebone in 1715.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Governing India's Metropolises: Case Studies of Four Cities, page 194",
          "text": "In contrast with Delhi, though, this development in Hyderabad juxtaposes (and conceptually collides!) with a stronger state-led aim to 'metropolise' the management of water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Lochner Marais, Etienne Nel, Ronnie Donaldson, Secondary Cities and Development",
          "text": "Three factors complicate this push by local governments to 'metropolise'.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of metropolize"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "metropolize",
          "metropolize#English"
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      ],
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  ],
  "word": "metropolise"
}