Search Result for "extemporize": 
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand;
- Example: "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"
[syn: improvise, extemporize]

2. perform without preparation;
- Example: "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"
[syn: improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Extemporize \Ex*tem"po*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Extemporized; p. pr. & vb. n. Extemporizing.] To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Extemporize \Ex*tem"po*rize\, v. t. To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc. [1913 Webster] Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). [1913 Webster] Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech --Lord Campbell. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

extemporize v 1: manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks" [syn: improvise, extemporize] 2: perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding" [syn: improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "extemporize": ad-lib, be caught napping, be surprised, be taken unawares, be unprepared, cook up, dash off, do offhand, fake, go off half-cocked, have no plan, improvisate, improvise, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, make up, play by ear, scrap the plan, strike off, throw off, throw together, toss off, toss out, vamp, whip up, whomp up, wing it