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veteranizing

veteranizing is the present participle and gerund of veteranize.

Meaning of veteranize

Verb

veteranize (third-person singular simple present veteranizes, present participle veteranizing, simple past and past participle veteranized)

  1. (transitive) To make veteran.
  2. (US, dated, intransitive) To reenlist for service as a soldier.
    • About this time we were much embarrassed by a general order of the War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize"1875, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman

Questions about veteranizing

What is veteranizing the present participle and gerund of?
Veteranizing is the present participle and gerund of veteranize.

Words near veteranizing in the dictionary

  1. veteraness
  2. veteranesses
  3. veteranize
  4. veteranized
  5. veteranizes
  6. veteranizing
  7. Veteranos
  8. veterans
  9. Veterans Day
  10. Veterans Village
  11. veterascent

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