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vagrantise

vagrantise is the alternative form of vagrantize.

Meaning of vagrantize

Verb

vagrantize (third-person singular simple present vagrantizes, present participle vagrantizing, simple past and past participle vagrantized)

  1. To wander freely, with no goal.
    • I say, in spite of this, my coming home is always coming to such a welcome, that I vow, always, never to vagrantize from that day forth again.1852, Lewis William Mansfield, edited by William B. Benedict, Up-country Letters, page 126
  2. To turn into a vagrant; to deprive of a home.
    • though the proud Cleopatra herself condescended to sue for one night's possession of the barn, old John took a couple of labourers with him, and while his wife was trimming the suppliant queen in her way, he demolished ' the cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces,' and turning the whole moveables...1797, Mrs. Agnes Maria Bennett, The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors - Volume 1, page 33

Forms of vagrantise

third-person singular presentvagrantises
present participlevagrantising
past participlevagrantised
pastvagrantised

Questions about vagrantise

What is vagrantise the alternative form of?
Vagrantise is the alternative form of vagrantize.

Words near vagrantise in the dictionary

  1. vagovagal
  2. vagrance
  3. vagrancies
  4. vagrancy
  5. vagrant
  6. vagrantise
  7. vagrantised
  8. vagrantises
  9. vagrantising
  10. vagrantism
  11. vagrantize

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