bachelorize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make into a bachelor

   To make into a bachelor; to deprive of a spouse.

   • Nick also wrote that Elena bachelorized him for four weeks last spring when she journeyed to Honduras to visit family and friends.
2. 2

   To confer a bachelor's degree on.

   • as if Sancho were anybody they pleased, and not that very Sancho Panza handed about in print all the world over, as Sampson Carrasco told me, who, at least, has been bachelorized at Salamanca ;
   • Mr. Sater wishes it distinctly understood that he belongs to the class of '95 and was rightfully bachelorized therein, but legally adopted by '97.
3. 3

   To make or become typical of a bachelor.

   • Man needs woman's refining care to keep him from becoming bachelorized.
   • My living room is what you'd expect, hardwood floors, simple grassy-brown furniture, oversized television, a fireplace. A former married home that's been “bachelorized,” according to Grant's wife, Audrey.
   • I suppose though your feelings have become so bachelorized that you can scarcely realize my pleasure.
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   1. 4

      To live without neither spouse nor children

      To live without neither spouse nor children; to live alone or with other single people.

      • They of course live very cheaply, because these communities are composed of men bachelorizing together, they have no wives or children to support, as women are not allowed to leave China.
      • Why shouldn't we two take a house and bachelorize?
      • The boy was no longer dependent upon his father—he could bachelorize with other lads or go into lodgings.
   2. 5

      To live the life of a bachelor

      To live the life of a bachelor; to socialize without a wife.

      • “You trifler!” Mrs. Armstrong was meanwhile saying. “I want you to talk seriously on this subject. It is high time that you solemnly attended to it. Do you mean to bachelorize your life out? […]"
      • Eventually he agreed to 'bachelorize off comfortably guided by the wind of his own daily will', going to Dumbleton, Oxford and then London.

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