Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1939, from accessory + -ize. Related: Accessorized; accessorizing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive or intransitive English) To furnish with accessories. 2 (context intransitive English) To wear, or to choose accessories.
Usage examples of "accessorize".
So were the cameras and the items needed to accessorize my ensemble: paper apron and mask, plastic goggles, latex gloves.
Police SWAT teams in chic basic black accessorized with tear gas and semiautomatic weapons are charging in past the doorman holding the door in his gold braid.
She glanced down at her own nakedness, accessorized with gleaming surgical steel.
Vuitton clutch hung from her elbow and she pushed an expensive Bertini stroller accessorized with an infant whose blond hair matched her own.
Sachs dressed in the white Tyvek suit and accessorized with rubber bands around her feet.
Winston Havershem, a transfer from England the previous year, was heavy into heavy metal and accessorized his basic black wardrobe at the hardware store.
The Mreee and the Nitch were not as hard targets as the Titcher units and Bill felt that the gun, which was the first Gatling gun accessorized with a semiauto selector switch, was more in keeping with the threat.
Wing Tsun style and she accessorizes with a razor-sharp sense of irony.
Police SWAT teams in chic basic black accessorized with tear gas and semiautomatic weapons are charging in past the doorman holding the door in his gold braid.
T-shirts, accessorized with a cheap watch and a tarnished wedding ring, also cheap, felt destined for nothing more dainty than a hamburger and a diet soda.
The woman stood beside her, the picture of upscale suburbia in a knit ensemble of hunter and rust, accessorized in brass, her deep red hair cut in a smooth shoulder-length bob.
Dressed in a flowery summer print, with carefully accessorized Aigner pumps,and pearls, she sobbed continuously into a wadded Kleenex.
Jocasta herself was wearing another slate-gray tailored suit in synthleather, accessorized in brushed steel and hematite, and she looked like something out of Corporate Woman magazine.
Buy the gold-plated faucets it you will, but do not accessorize your prose.
The Simbiari Proctors might never squeeze the whole truth out of that valiant young mind, but that wouldn't stop them from pronouncing him guilty of compounding a felony and accessorizing after the fact.