Usually means: Improvise spontaneously without prior preparation.
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  1. extemporise: Merriam-Webster
  2. extemporise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. extemporise: Vocabulary.com
  4. extemporise: Wordnik
  5. extemporise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. extemporise: Wiktionary
  7. extemporise: Dictionary.com
  8. extemporise: Rhymezone
  9. extemporise: FreeDictionary.org
  10. extemporise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. extemporise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. extemporise: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
verb:  (intransitive) To do something in a makeshift way.
verb:  (transitive) To make or create ex tempore.
verb:  (transitive, music) To compose extemporaneously or improvise.

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