veteranize

English

Etymology

Verb

veteranize (third-person singular simple present veteranizes, present participle veteranizing, simple past and past participle veteranized)

(transitive) To make veteran.
(US, military, intransitive, dated) To reenlist for service as a soldier.
- 1875, General William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman:
  About this time we were much embarrassed by a general order of the War Department, promising a thirty-days furlough to all soldiers who would "veteranize"

References

“veteranize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.