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Anglifying

Anglifying is the present participle and gerund of Anglify.

Meaning of Anglify

Verb

Anglify (third-person singular simple present Anglifies, present participle Anglifying, simple past and past participle Anglified)

  1. (transitive) To convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise.
    • Why should Pennsylvania […] become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?1751, Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.

Questions about Anglifying

What is Anglifying the present participle and gerund of?
Anglifying is the present participle and gerund of Anglify.

Words near Anglifying in the dictionary

  1. Anglicé
  2. Anglification
  3. Anglified
  4. Anglifies
  5. Anglify
  6. Anglifying
  7. anglimaniac
  8. anglimaniacs
  9. Anglin
  10. angling
  11. angling for

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Anglifying (page history and authors); Anglify (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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