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ambitionize (三人称単数 現在形 ambitionizes, 現在分詞 ambitionizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 ambitionized)

1. To make or become ambitious.
   • 1869, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil:

     Here is the Rua do Alecrim, consisting of a dismantled hut on one side, faced by seven poor tenements, of which one, by affecting a square box as an upper story, ambitionizes the title of " Sobradinho."

   • 1918, Bankers Magazine - Volume 97, page 742:

     The “Y” man Americanizes the foreigner and ambitionizes the American

   • 1919, Health Department Bulletin - Volumes 9-11, page 27:

     Some of these families might be cured in six months; others it might take a year to Americanize, “sanitanize” and “ambitionize”.