vagrantizing
vagrantizing is the present participle and gerund of vagrantize.
Meaning of vagrantize
Verb
vagrantize (third-person singular simple present vagrantizes, present participle vagrantizing, simple past and past participle vagrantized)
- 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
- 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
Questions about vagrantizing
- What is vagrantizing the present participle and gerund of?
- Vagrantizing is the present participle and gerund of vagrantize.
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