texturize

[ teks-chuh-rahyz ]

verb (used with object)

, tex·tur·ized, tex·tur·iz·ing.

1. to give texture or a particular texture to:

   texturized yarn.

Other Words From

• textur·izer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of texturize¹

First recorded in 1945–50; texture + -ize

Example Sentences

Finally, the scientists texturize the meat by mixing, heating or shearing it—GOOD Meat uses an extruder—and press it into nugget or cutlet shape.

From Scientific American

If you're looking to texturize a cut more, pick up a pair of thinning shears, also known as blending or texture shears.

From Salon

His grandfather founded Rigidized Metals in order to texturize lightweight materials for Second World War aircraft—a business that Smith’s father, and then Smith, diversified, to produce patterned metal for commercial goods such as restroom-stall partitions.

From The New Yorker

Lithgow gives "an intelligent, always beautifully spoken performance," Green wrote, but the staging as a whole "almost entirely lacks the lively small gestures that texturize a play's surface."

From Los Angeles Times