verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: geˈoloˌgized or geˈoloˌgizing
Rare
to study geology or make a geologic survey of (an area)
geologize in American English
(dʒiˈɑləˌdʒaiz) (verb-gized, -gizing)
intransitive verb
1.
to study geology
transitive verb
2.
to examine geologically
Alsoesp Britgeologise
Word origin
[1825–35; geolog(y) + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cliché, electrolyte, self-help, spiritualism, structural-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize)