adventurize

English

Etymology

adventure +‎ -ize

Verb

adventurize (third-person singular simple present adventurizes, present participle adventurizing, simple past and past participle adventurized)

1. To make into an adventure; to give adventurous characteristics to.
   • 1952, Canadian Author and Bookman, volumes 28-31:

     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.

   • 1962, Puzant Kevork Thomajan, Advertigo, page 32:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.