bachelorize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To confer a bachelor's degree on.
Example Sentences
- "To eradicate all domestic and patriotic sympathies with home and "their own, their native land," and in order to have in them a militia that would feel and fight for him alone, the Pope bachelorized the whole ministry about the termination of the eleventh century."
- "Nick also wrote that Elena bachelorized him for four weeks last spring when she journeyed to Honduras to visit family and friends."
- "Some of the newly bachelorized men were directed to reside in an apartment building built specifically to house ten or twelve of these divorcees, all scrambling to prove themselves obedient enough to "get new assignments" or maybe, if they were truly optimistic, to get their old families back."
- "as if Sancho were anybody they pleased, and not that very Sancho Panza handed about in print all the world over, as Sampson Carrasco told me, who, at least, has been bachelorized at Salamanca ;"
- "Mr. Sater wishes it distinctly understood that he belongs to the class of '95 and was rightfully bachelorized therein, but legally adopted by '97."
- "Man needs woman's refining care to keep him from becoming bachelorized."
Etymology
From bachelor + -ize.