Associations to the word «Vulcanize»

Wiktionary

VULCANIZE, verb. (transitive) To treat rubber with heat and (usually) sulphur to harden it and make it more durable.
VULCANIZE, verb. To desertify or make (something, such as a landscape) xeric.

Dictionary definition

VULCANIZE, verb. Undergo vulcanization; "vulcanize rubber".
VULCANIZE, verb. Subject to vulcanization; "vulcanized rubber".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne