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  • verb To modify something (such as electronic equipment) for use in the tropics, especially by making it resistant to heat and humidity

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Examples

  • It is going to take at least 2 years to assimilate properly, digest well, tropicalize well, and Cubanize all that experience and then prepare our programs.

    NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE STUDENTS 1984

  • City, "he cried, and his voice rolled over the metropolis like thunder," I am going to tropicalize you. "

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

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