bachelorize

verb5

1. •
   To live without neither spouse nor children; to live alone or with other single people.

   • They of course live very cheaply, because these communities are composed of men bachelorizing together, they have no wives or children to support, as women are not allowed to leave China. — 1887
2. •
   To live the life of a bachelor; to socialize without a wife.

   • “You trifler!” Mrs. Armstrong was meanwhile saying. “I want you to talk seriously on this subject. It is high time that you solemnly attended to it. Do you mean to bachelorize your life out? […]" — 1878
3. •
   To make or become typical of a bachelor.

   • Man needs woman's refining care to keep him from becoming bachelorized. — 1859
4. •
   To make into a bachelor; to deprive of a spouse.

   • Nick also wrote that Elena bachelorized him for four weeks last spring when she journeyed to Honduras to visit family and friends. — 1994
5. •
   To confer a bachelor's degree on.

   • as if Sancho were anybody they pleased, and not that very Sancho Panza handed about in print all the world over, as Sampson Carrasco told me, who, at least, has been bachelorized at Salamanca — 1856