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adverbifying

adverbifying is the present participle and gerund of adverbify.

Meaning of adverbify

Verb

adverbify (third-person singular simple present adverbifies, present participle adverbifying, simple past and past participle adverbified)

  1. (rare, transitive) To convert (a word that is not an adverb) into an adverb.
    • But the Accent over it Adverbifies it with a Witneſs, and pins it down beyond Contradiction an Adverb, by annihilating it as an Adjective.1722, [John] Ozell, “The Introduction”, in Common-Prayer Not Common Sense, in Several Places of the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Latin, and Greek Translations of the English Liturgy. […]...

Questions about adverbifying

What is adverbifying the present participle and gerund of?
Adverbifying is the present participle and gerund of adverbify.

Words near adverbifying in the dictionary

  1. adverbials
  2. adverbials of time
  3. adverbified
  4. adverbifies
  5. adverbify
  6. adverbifying
  7. adverbing
  8. adverbise
  9. adverbised
  10. adverbises
  11. adverbising

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