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tourize

tourize verb: to travel as a tourist.

Verb

tourize (third-person singular simple present tourizes, present participle tourizing, simple past and past participle tourized)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To travel as a tourist.
    • In travelling or tourizing "in whiskey, buggey, gig, dog-cart, curricle, or tandem;" or, it may be, in your new drag, "never, by way of a lark, attempt to spoil the picturesque appearance of the covey, feeding within gun-shot of the road side, by raking them; […]1842, Captain Lacy, The Modern Shooter, page 121
    • Paraguay is the size of California, so I didn't tourize it all. But I put five hundred miles on the rental car and was unable to find an ugly place except the Asunción Zoo.2018, P. J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance, page 49

Forms of tourize

third-person singular presenttourizes
present participletourizing
past participletourized
pasttourized

Questions about tourize

What does tourize mean?
Tourize means to travel as a tourist.
What part of speech is tourize?
Tourize is a verb.
What is the past tense of tourize?
The past tense of tourize is tourized.

Words near tourize in the dictionary

  1. touristry
  2. tourists
  3. touristscape
  4. touristscapes
  5. touristy
  6. tourize
  7. tourized
  8. tourizes
  9. tourizing
  10. Tourje
  11. Tourjé

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