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tavernizing

tavernizing is the present participle and gerund of tavernize.

Meaning of tavernize

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

Questions about tavernizing

What is tavernizing the present participle and gerund of?
Tavernizing is the present participle and gerund of tavernize.

Words near tavernizing in the dictionary

  1. Tavernise
  2. Tavernises
  3. tavernize
  4. tavernized
  5. tavernizes
  6. tavernizing
  7. tavernkeep
  8. tavernkeeper
  9. tavernkeepers
  10. tavernkeeping
  11. tavernkeeps

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