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-ifying

-ifying is the present participle and gerund of -ify.

Meaning of -ify

Suffix

-ify (verb-forming suffix, third-person singular simple present -ifies, present participle -ifying, simple past and past participle -ified)

  1. Forms transitive verbs meaning "to make" from adjectives and nouns.
  2. Forms intransitive verbs meaning "to become" from adjectives and nouns.

Questions about -ifying

What is -ifying the present participle and gerund of?
-ifying is the present participle and gerund of -ify.

Words near -ifying in the dictionary

  1. -ified
  2. -ifier
  3. -ifies
  4. -iform
  5. -ify
  6. -ifying
  7. -ign
  8. -ii
  9. -ikin
  10. -ile
  11. -ilide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ifying (page history and authors); -ify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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