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vagrantize

verb

Etymology

From vagrant + -ize.

  1. derived from *walg-✻
  2. inherited from *walkōną✻ — “to roll about, wallow; to full”
  3. derived from *walkrōn✻ — “to wander about”
  4. derived from vagārī
  5. derived from walcrant
  6. derived from vagarant
  7. inherited from vagraunt — “person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”
  8. suffixed as vagrantize — “vagrant + ize”

Definitions

  1. To wander freely, with no goal.

    • I say, in spite of this, my coming home is always coming to such a welcome, that I vow, always, never to vagrantize from that day forth again.
    • On the 10th he had been out on the other side of the river, vagrantizing in his usual fashion, and returning late to his little boat, and, as we suspect, having fallen asleep, he drifted ashore at Stony Point.

  2. To turn into a vagrant

    To turn into a vagrant; to deprive of a home.

    • But the criminal status of other groups was vague; criminals were initially vagrantized bandit groups that then became more and more marginalized as more effective policing” made banditry difficult, if not impossible.
    • Immobilized, unable to drag himself out to the fort, Bu Yu had been vagrantized, or so he'd thought, on a permanent basis.

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