tourize

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verb

To travel as a tourist.

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Meanings

verbtourize (third-person singular simple present tourizes, present participle tourizing, simple past and past participle tourized)

present singular third person tourizes · participle present tourizing · participle past tourized · past tourized

  1. ambitransitiverareTo travel as a tourist.

    Paraguay is the size of California, so I didn't tourize it all. But I put five hundred miles on the rental car and was unable to find an ugly place except the Asunción Zoo.

    2018, P. J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance, page 49
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    In travelling or tourizing "in whiskey, buggey, gig, dog-cart, curricle, or tandem;" or, it may be, in your new drag, "never, by way of a lark, attempt to spoil the picturesque appearance of the covey, feeding within gun-shot of the road side, by raking them; […]

    1842, Captain Lacy, The Modern Shooter, page 121
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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