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adventurize

verb

Etymology

From adventure + -ize.

  1. derived from adventūrus
  2. derived from *adventūra✻
  3. derived from aventure
  4. inherited from aventure
  5. suffixed as adventurize — “adventure + ize”

Definitions

  1. To make into an adventure

    To make into an adventure; to give adventurous characteristics to.

    • I recall my friend, the late Charles Jeffries, who heard I was trying to adventurize Canada's past years, and who came down to the office one afternoon and yarned for a couple of hours, chain-smoking as he always did.
    • Serendipity adventurizes and romanticizes objects of desire, endowing the experience of their acquisition with a vicarious thrill.
    • The first thing they did was adventurize our staff. They took them to Boston and had them do the things we would be asking the kids to do.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA