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adventurize en · VERB

Etymology

From adventure + -ize.

Meanings

1. To make into an adventure; to give adventurous characteristics to.
   • 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. 1981, Joshua L. Miner, Outward Bound U.S.A.: Learning Through Experience in Adventure-based Education:
   • 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. 1952, Canadian Author and Bookman, volumes 28-31:
   • As usual his adventurizing of the previously undefined is precipitate, cutting off the inductive process of inquiry with a trenchant deduction formulated on the basis of bookish assumptions. 1992, Steven D. Hutchinson, Cervantine Journeys, page 151:
   • Serendipity adventurizes and romanticizes objects of desire, endowing the experience of their acquisition with a vicarious thrill. 1962, Puzant Kevork Thomajan, Advertigo, page 32:

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