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blackifies

blackifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blackify.

Meaning of blackify

Verb

blackify (third-person singular simple present blackifies, present participle blackifying, simple past and past participle blackified)

  1. (transitive) To convert (e.g. a country, a group, etc) to the black race or culture.
    • Her France seems to her undoubtedly blackified [translating negrificada] and Jewish.1995, Lisa Block de Behar, A Rhetoric of Silence and Other Selected Writings →ISBN, translating a word by Manuel Puig, page 269

Questions about blackifies

What is blackifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Blackifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of blackify.

Words near blackifies in the dictionary

  1. Blackhursts
  2. Blackian
  3. blackie
  4. blackies
  5. blackified
  6. blackifies
  7. blackify
  8. blackifying
  9. blacking
  10. blacking in
  11. blacking out

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