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betterfying

betterfying is the present participle and gerund of betterfy.

Meaning of betterfy

Verb

betterfy (third-person singular simple present betterfies, present participle betterfying, simple past and past participle betterfied)

  1. (US, nonstandard, rare, slang, transitive) to make better
    • The kind-hearted Clio encouraged her hopes, and recounted sundry histories which she had heard from their forest customers, of the betterfying effects of the handsome locations round Natchez.1857, Frances Trollope, Lynch Law; or, the Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, page 25

Questions about betterfying

What is betterfying the present participle and gerund of?
Betterfying is the present participle and gerund of betterfy.

Words near betterfying in the dictionary

  1. betterest
  2. bettereth
  3. betterfied
  4. betterfies
  5. betterfy
  6. betterfying
  7. betterhood
  8. Betteridge
  9. Betteridge's Law
  10. Betteridge's law of headlines
  11. bettering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: betterfying (page history and authors); betterfy (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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