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bourgeoisifying

bourgeoisifying is the present participle and gerund of bourgeoisify.

Meaning of bourgeoisify

Verb

bourgeoisify (third-person singular simple present bourgeoisifies, present participle bourgeoisifying, simple past and past participle bourgeoisified)

  1. (transitive) To make bourgeois.
    • The workers' militias and police-forces must be preserved in their present form and every effort to "bourgeoisify" them must be resisted.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter V, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC

Questions about bourgeoisifying

What is bourgeoisifying the present participle and gerund of?
Bourgeoisifying is the present participle and gerund of bourgeoisify.

Words near bourgeoisifying in the dictionary

  1. bourgeoisification
  2. bourgeoisifications
  3. bourgeoisified
  4. bourgeoisifies
  5. bourgeoisify
  6. bourgeoisifying
  7. bourgeoising
  8. bourgeoisitic
  9. bourgeoisly
  10. bourgeoisness
  11. bourgeon

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