Extemporize

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To perform or speak without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise. intransitive

    ""Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . . "It's nobody's, miss." "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?""

  2. 2
    perform without preparation wordnet
  3. 3
    To adapt, improvise, or devise action or speech in an impromptu or spontaneous manner. transitive

    "As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes."

  4. 4
    manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand wordnet

Etymology

From extempore + -ize.

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