Usually means: Improvise spontaneously without prior preparation.
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  1. extemporize: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extemporize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extemporize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extemporize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extemporize: Vocabulary.com
  6. extemporize: Wordnik
  7. extemporize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extemporize: Wiktionary
  9. extemporize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extemporize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extemporize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Extemporize, extemporize: Dictionary.com
  13. Extemporize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. extemporize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. extemporize: Rhymezone
  16. Extemporize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. extemporize: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. extemporize: Free Dictionary
  19. extemporize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. extemporize: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. extemporize: A Word A Day

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verb:  (intransitive) To perform or speak without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
verb:  (transitive) To adapt, improvise, or devise action or speech in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.

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