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adventurizing

adventurizing is the present participle and gerund of adventurize.

Meaning of adventurize

Verb

adventurize (third-person singular simple present adventurizes, present participle adventurizing, simple past and past participle adventurized)

  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.1952, Canadian Author and Bookman, volumes 28-31

Questions about adventurizing

What is adventurizing the present participle and gerund of?
Adventurizing is the present participle and gerund of adventurize.

Words near adventurizing in the dictionary

  1. adventuristic
  2. adventurists
  3. adventurize
  4. adventurized
  5. adventurizes
  6. adventurizing
  7. adventurous
  8. adventurous sport
  9. adventurously
  10. adventurousness
  11. adventury

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