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blandifying

blandifying is the present participle and gerund of blandify.

Meaning of blandify

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

Questions about blandifying

What is blandifying the present participle and gerund of?
Blandifying is the present participle and gerund of blandify.

Words near blandifying in the dictionary

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

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