boulevardize

English

Etymology

From boulevard +‎ -ize.

Verb

boulevardize (third-person singular simple present boulevardizes, present participle boulevardizing, simple past and past participle boulevardized)

1. (transitive) To convert into boulevards.
   • 1864, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, The Eclectic Review (volume 7? volume 120? page 130)

     This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since.