ambitionizing

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