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v. - To construct or finish (a road) by compacting into a solid mass a layer of small broken stone ; A Surface with broken stone.

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  • The local authorities needed to macadamize the path in preparation for the coming rainy days.
  • The ODA Loan from China was used to macadamize the “corruption highway” engineered by trusted VIP i.e. voracious and inept people and supported by the Chinese in...
  • But the trustees wanting to macadamize the miserably pitched street of the town, he bethought him of dust in summer and mud in winter, and drew up a long memorial to the...
  • Buncombe has purchased a complete outfit of machinery, and has begun to macadamize.
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