Meaning

To wander freely, with no goal..

Definitions by Sense

1. To wander freely, with no goal.
2. To turn into a vagrant; to deprive of a home.

Example Sentences

I say, in spite of this, my coming home is always coming to such a welcome, that I vow, always, never to vagrantize from that day forth again.

The ladies and children were about taking leave of him— his long stick in hand and his face turned towards the mountains where he is to vagrantize for the summer—when it occurred to him to turn and inquire, whether, in that closely-tied and yet unexamined bundle, there happened to be a coat.

On the 10th he had been out on the other side of the river, vagrantizing in his usual fashion, and returning late to his little boat, and, as we suspect, having fallen asleep, he drifted ashore at Stony Point.

though the proud Cleopatra herself condescended to sue for one night's possession of the barn, old John took a couple of labourers with him, and while his wife was trimming the suppliant queen in her way, he demolished ' the cloud-capt towers and gorgeous palaces,' and turning the whole moveables into the yard, locked the door, and set off to the next justice of the peace, for the purpose of getting the whole set vagrantized.

But the criminal status of other groups was vague; criminals were initially vagrantized bandit groups that then became more and more marginalized as more effective policing” made banditry difficult, if not impossible.

Immobilized, unable to drag himself out to the fort, Bu Yu had been vagrantized, or so he'd thought, on a permanent basis.

Word Forms

• vagrantizes
• vagrantizing
• vagrantized
• vagrantise

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