tavernize

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verb

To frequent taverns; to go out drinking in taverns.

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Meanings

verbtavernize (third-person singular simple present tavernizes, present participle tavernizing, simple past and past participle tavernized)

present singular third person tavernizes · participle present tavernizing · participle past tavernized · past tavernized

  1. intransitiveTo frequent taverns; to go out drinking in taverns.

    Samuel certainly was no saint, and seems to have been a perfect giant in tavernizing and junketing generally […]

    1867, James Grant Wilson, Mr. Secretary Pepys: With Extracts from His Diary, page 98
  2. transitiveTo turn into a tavern, or adapt to the needs of taverns.

    In blithely demanding that America tavernize itself, the king ultimately sowed the seeds of his own doom. Taverns would come to serve the resistance more than they served the Crown […]

    2016, Steven Grasse, Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History

Origin

From tavern + -ize.

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APA

tavernize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tavernize

MLA

“tavernize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tavernize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tavernize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tavernize.

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