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tavernize

tavernize verb: to frequent taverns; to go out drinking in taverns.

Verb

tavernize (third-person singular simple present tavernizes, present participle tavernizing, simple past and past participle tavernized)

  1. (intransitive) To frequent taverns; to go out drinking in taverns.
    • Samuel certainly was no saint, and seems to have been a perfect giant in tavernizing and junketing generally […]1867, James Grant Wilson, Mr. Secretary Pepys: With Extracts from His Diary, page 98
  2. (transitive) To turn into a tavern, or adapt to the needs of taverns.
    • In blithely demanding that America tavernize itself, the king ultimately sowed the seeds of his own doom. Taverns would come to serve the resistance more than they served the Crown […]2016, Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History

Forms of tavernize

third-person singular presenttavernizes
present participletavernizing
past participletavernized
pasttavernized

Origin of tavernize

From tavern + -ize.

Questions about tavernize

What does tavernize mean?
Tavernize means to frequent taverns; to go out drinking in taverns.
What part of speech is tavernize?
Tavernize is a verb.
What is the past tense of tavernize?
The past tense of tavernize is tavernized.

Words near tavernize in the dictionary

  1. Taverniers
  2. taverning
  3. tavernings
  4. Tavernise
  5. Tavernises
  6. tavernize
  7. tavernized
  8. tavernizes
  9. tavernizing
  10. tavernkeep
  11. tavernkeeper

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