Definition of "mechanize" [mech•an•ize]

• To equip with machinery: mechanize a factory. (verb-transitive)
• To equip (a military unit) with motor vehicles, such as tanks and trucks. (verb-transitive)
• To make automatic or unspontaneous; render routine or monotonous. (verb-transitive)
• To produce by or as if by machines. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Whether in the long run we should go onto mechanize is a question on which I do not wish to dogmatize, but I am certain that the improvement of agriculture in Asia should start with the extension of modern science to agriculture, rather than with mechanization."
• "Unfortunately, Python's "mechanize" library is not as well developed as I would like to see it."
• "The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process."