veteranize

English

Etymology

veteran +‎ -ize

Verb

veteranize (third-person singular simple present veteranizes, present participle veteranizing, simple past and past participle veteranized)

1. (transitive) To make veteran.
2. (US, military, intransitive) To reenlist for service as a soldier.
   • 1875, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman:

     About this time we were much embarrassed by a general order of the War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize"

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “veteranize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)