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ambitionize

ambitionize verb: to make or become ambitious.

Verb

ambitionize (third-person singular simple present ambitionizes, present participle ambitionizing, simple past and past participle ambitionized)

  1. To make or become ambitious.
    • Here is the Rua do Alecrim, consisting of a dismantled hut on one side, faced by seven poor tenements, of which one, by affecting a square box as an upper story, ambitionizes the title of " Sobradinho."1869, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil
    • The “Y” man Americanizes the foreigner and ambitionizes the American1918, Bankers Magazine - Volume 97, page 742

Forms of ambitionize

third-person singular presentambitionizes
present participleambitionizing
past participleambitionized
pastambitionized

Origin of ambitionize

From ambition + -ize.

Questions about ambitionize

What does ambitionize mean?
Ambitionize means to make or become ambitious.
What part of speech is ambitionize?
Ambitionize is a verb.
What is the past tense of ambitionize?
The past tense of ambitionize is ambitionized.

Words near ambitionize in the dictionary

  1. ambitionating
  2. ambitioned
  3. ambitioning
  4. ambitionist
  5. ambitionists
  6. ambitionize
  7. ambitionized
  8. ambitionizes
  9. ambitionizing
  10. ambitionless
  11. ambitionlessly

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