veteranize

verb — 2 senses

veteranize

verb

Etymology From veteran + -ize.

1

To make veteran.

2

Government, Military, Politics, War US, Dated To reenlist for service as a soldier.

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"1875, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman:

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