rubblize

rubblize
 v.— «The road is about 25 years old, Biebel said, and the work involves breaking up the old concrete pavement to create a new road base, a process called “rubblizing,” and paving the street over with new asphalt. New streetlights are going in as well.» —“As summer heats up, so does construction season” Sheboygan Press (Wisconsin) May 10, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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