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extemporize
[ ik-stem-puh-rahyz ]
verb (used without object)
- to speak extemporaneously:
He can extemporize on any of a number of subjects.
- to sing, or play on an instrument, composing the music as one proceeds; improvise.
- to do or manage something in a makeshift way.
verb (used with object)
- to make or devise extempore.
- Music. to compose offhand; improvise.
extemporize
/ 瑟办藞蝉迟蓻尘辫蓹藢谤补瑟锄 /
verb
- to perform, speak, or compose (an act, speech, piece of music, etc) without planning or preparation
- to use (a temporary solution) for an immediate need; improvise
Derived Forms
- 别虫藞迟别尘辫辞藢谤颈锄别谤, noun
- 别虫藢迟别尘辫辞谤颈藞锄补迟颈辞苍, noun
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 别虫路迟别尘顎卲辞路谤颈路锄补顎僼颈辞苍 noun
- 别虫路迟别尘顎僷辞路谤颈锄顎卐谤 noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of extemporize1
Example Sentences
Sensing an opportunity to extemporize, he looked around the chamber, pleased.
At the finale's close, after Alex has haltingly extemporized about whether she deserves all the terrible things that have happened to her and mulls the possibility of life after death, she shrugs.
But as Harrison proves with his clueless extemporizing, tossing a few people of color into arenas of whiteness and calling it progress can cement dishonest impressions of racial equality in place for decades.
Historically, chanteys 鈥 which are also spelled as "shanties" or "chanties" 鈥 began with a sing-out by a crew member recognized as "the chanteyman," usually someone prized for his voice and ability to extemporize.
In late August, near the end of his somnolent address on the South Front of the White House accepting the Republican nomination, Trump extemporized: "The fact is, we're here 鈥 and they're not."
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