Definition of "improvise" verb third-person singular simple present improvises , present participle improvising , simple past and past participle improvised
To make something up or invent it as one goes on ; to proceed guided only by imagination , intuition , and guesswork rather than by a careful plan . quotations examples
Quotations We have improvised the most charming party imaginable . The summer has come back by surprise . I own I wonder that June was not tired of us : still here is a day so sunny , that October does not know its own . The Duke of Wharton , Lord Hervey , and some two or three others , have designed a water -party in our honour .
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 173