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veteranize en · VERB

Etymology

From veteran + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To make veteran.
  2. (US, dated, intransitive) To reenlist for service as a soldier.
    • About this time we were much embarrassed by a general order of the War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize" 1875, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman:

Forms

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veteranizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
veteranized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
veteranized Tense=Past lexicographic
veteranizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic