adventurize

present singular third person adventurizes · participle present adventurizing · participle past adventurized · past adventurized

1. To make into an adventure; to give adventurous characteristics to.

   Serendipity adventurizes and romanticizes objects of desire, endowing the experience of their acquisition with a vicarious thrill.

   1962, Puzant Kevork Thomajan, Advertigo, page 32

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   I recall my friend, the late Charles Jeffries, who heard I was trying to adventurize Canada's past years, and who came down to the office one afternoon and yarned for a couple of hours, chain-smoking as he always did.

   1952, Canadian Author and Bookman, volumes 28-31

   The first thing they did was adventurize our staff. They took them to Boston and had them do the things we would be asking the kids to do.

   1981, Joshua L. Miner, Outward Bound U.S.A.: Learning Through Experience in Adventure-based Education

   As usual his adventurizing of the previously undefined is precipitate, cutting off the inductive process of inquiry with a trenchant deduction formulated on the basis of bookish assumptions.

   1992, Steven D. Hutchinson, Cervantine Journeys, page 151