ambitionize

present singular third person ambitionizes · participle present ambitionizing · participle past ambitionized · past ambitionized

1. To make or become ambitious.

   The “Y” man Americanizes the foreigner and ambitionizes the American

   1918, Bankers Magazine - Volume 97, page 742

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   Here is the Rua do Alecrim, consisting of a dismantled hut on one side, faced by seven poor tenements, of which one, by affecting a square box as an upper story, ambitionizes the title of " Sobradinho."

   1869, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil

   Some of these families might be cured in six months; others it might take a year to Americanize, “sanitanize” and “ambitionize”.

   1919, Health Department Bulletin - Volumes 9-11, page 27