dieselise

From diesel +‎ -ise.

dieselise (third-person singular simple present dieselises, present participle dieselising, simple past and past participle dieselised)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of dieselize.
   • 1958 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 268:

     In the United States, where the railways are 90 per cent. dieselised today, diesel-electric power is the unvarying rule for independent locomotive units, and the only motive power exceptions are the highly successful 600-h.p. diesel-hydraulic railcars of the Budd "RDC" type, of which between 300 and 400 are now at work.

   • 1963 January, Jeffrey P. Burke, “Railway crossroads of the north-west: Shrewsbury”, in Modern Railways, page 56:

     In conjunction, much freight traffic was to be dieselised under the W.R. scheme.

• dieselisation

• “dieselise”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.