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blandify

blandify verb: to make bland.

Verb

blandify (third-person singular simple present blandifies, present participle blandifying, simple past and past participle blandified)

  1. (rare, transitive) To make bland.
    • There’d been a time when those still devoted to some norm of propriety had tried to paint the words over, but a few kids bent on self-expressive anarchy could destroy in an hour a white surface it had taken a crew three days to blandify.2013, Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam, Bloomsbury, page 98

Forms of blandify

third-person singular presentblandifies
present participleblandifying
past participleblandified
pastblandified

Origin of blandify

From bland + -ify.

Questions about blandify

What does blandify mean?
Blandify means to make bland.
What part of speech is blandify?
Blandify is a verb.
What is the past tense of blandify?
The past tense of blandify is blandified.

Words near blandify in the dictionary

  1. Blandfords
  2. Blandiana
  3. blandification
  4. blandified
  5. blandifies
  6. blandify
  7. blandifying
  8. blandiloquence
  9. blandiloquent
  10. blandiloquently
  11. blandiloquous

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