laterise

English

Verb

laterise (third-person singular simple present laterises, present participle laterising, simple past and past participle laterised)

Alternative form of laterize
- 1932, Technical Communication - Imperial Bureau of Soil Science:
  In general, rocks containing a high proportion of aluminium and iron laterise more readily than those composed mainly of alkali felspars.
- 1957, J. L. d' Hoore, The Accumulation of Free Sesquioxides in Tropical Soils, page 45:
  These sandstones are very sensitive to erosive agents, whereas the sericite schist "laterises" and thus becomes harder ...
- 1980, K. Vijayachandran, Silent Valley, myth and reality, page 79:
  The underlying rock is granite and the schists and geeiss covering the slopes give rise to loamy soils which harden and laterise on exposure.

Anagrams

Aleister, ateliers, e-tailers, earliest, etailers, leariest, realties

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