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tavernize en · VERB

Etymology

From tavern + -ize.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To frequent taverns; to go out drinking in taverns.
   • Samuel certainly was no saint, and seems to have been a perfect giant in tavernizing and junketing generally […] 1867, James Grant Wilson, Mr. Secretary Pepys: With Extracts from His Diary, page 98:
2. (transitive) To turn into a tavern, or adapt to the needs of taverns.
   • In blithely demanding that America tavernize itself, the king ultimately sowed the seeds of his own doom. Taverns would come to serve the resistance more than they served the Crown […] 2016, Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History:

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