1. having been developed into or transformed into a suburban area with residential neighborhoods, shopping centers, and other suburban characteristics

Examples

• The once rural farmland has become completely suburbanized over the past decade.
• Many suburbanized areas lack adequate public transportation.
• The suburbanized landscape stretched for miles outside the city.
• Environmental groups oppose the suburbanized development of the wetlands.
• Her hometown had become heavily suburbanized since she moved away.
• The suburbanized region now hosts several major shopping malls.