Definitions for extemporize

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extemporize ex·tem·po·rize

Spelling: [ik-stem-puh-rahyz]

IPA: /ɪkˈstɛm pəˌraɪz/

Extemporize is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 33 points.

You can make 374 anagrams from letters in extemporize (eeeimoprtxz).

Definitions for extemporize

verb (used without object)

1. to speak extemporaneously:
2. to sing, or play on an instrument, composing the music as one proceeds; improvise.
3. to do or manage something in a makeshift way.

verb (used with object)

1. to make or devise extempore.
2. Music. to compose offhand; improvise.

Origin of extemporize

First recorded in 1635-45; extempore + -ize

Examples for extemporize

The small jelly-speck, which we call the amœba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.

He could not read or write, but he was wise, And knew right smart how to extemporize.

I used to learn the songs by heart and invent and extemporize tunes for them.

And that night, with such instruments as he could extemporize, he operated.

Adrian had to extemporize, that the baronet had gone down to Wales on pressing business, and would be back in a week or so.

If you extemporize you can get much closer to your audience.

Psychologists, seeing that inference is a mental operation, often extemporize a theory of inference to the neglect of logic.

Being a victim of the unforeseen, no choice remains to me; I must extemporize.

But national spirit could not extemporize a fleet, or produce trained officers and sailors to match the conquerors of Lepanto.

They could extemporize board and men, but how to raise the bits of ivory?