Adventurize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From adventure + -ize.

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