Verboticism: Unmidasize
DEFINITION: v. To sacrifice your health, your family, and even a few friends to money, only to discover that money doesn't like you. n. A sacrifice made for money that goes unrewarded.
Unmidasize
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: uhn-MY-dah-size
Sentence: Jim grew up in a typical middle-class home, comfortable enough, but his post-college determination to make a killing in hog futures unmidasized his life.
Etymology: un, prefix of reversal + Midas, whose touch turned everything to gold + ize, verb ending
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