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blackifying

blackifying is the present participle and gerund 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 blackifying

What is blackifying the present participle and gerund of?
Blackifying is the present participle and gerund of blackify.

Words near blackifying in the dictionary

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

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