Definition of "metropolise"

metropolise

verb
third-person singular simple present metropolises, present participle metropolising, simple past and past participle metropolised
1. Alternative form of metropolize
  Quotations
  Cavendish Square was part of a big scheme to metropolise Marylebone in 1715.
  1901, Walter Sydney Sichel, Bolingbroke and His Times: Period I. The reign of Queen Ann
  In contrast with Delhi, though, this development in Hyderabad juxtaposes (and conceptually collides!) with a stronger state-led aim to 'metropolise' the management of water.
  2012, Joël Ruet, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Governing India's Metropolises: Case Studies of Four Cities, page 194
  Three factors complicate this push by local governments to 'metropolise'.
  2016, Lochner Marais, Etienne Nel, Ronnie Donaldson, Secondary Cities and Development