(v) manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand, Syn.extemporize, Example: after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
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 ]
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 ]
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