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sailorize

sailorize verb: to do the work of a sailor.

Verb

sailorize (third-person singular simple present sailorizes, present participle sailorizing, simple past and past participle sailorized)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To do the work of a sailor.
    • I have worked like a Trojan all day, and the idea is realized. Margaret helped me out with suggestions, and Tom Spink did the sailorizing. Over our head, from the jiggermast, the steel stays that carry the three jigger-trysails descend high above the break of the poop and across the main deck to...1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLIV
  2. (dated, transitive) To make (a person) into a sailor; to train in seamanship.

Forms of sailorize

third-person singular presentsailorizes
present participlesailorizing
past participlesailorized
pastsailorized

Origin of sailorize

From sailor + -ize.

Questions about sailorize

What does sailorize mean?
Sailorize means to do the work of a sailor.
What part of speech is sailorize?
Sailorize is a verb.
What is the past tense of sailorize?
The past tense of sailorize is sailorized.

Words near sailorize in the dictionary

  1. sailor-proof
  2. sailoress
  3. sailoresses
  4. sailoring
  5. sailorings
  6. sailorize
  7. sailorized
  8. sailorizes
  9. sailorizing
  10. sailorless
  11. sailorlike

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