citifying

Verb

citify (third-person singular simple present citifies, present participle citifying, simple past and past participle citified)

1. (informal, intransitive) To become more like or more in the character of a city.
   • The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying" and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing."1946, Harper's Magazine, volume 192
2. (slang, transitive) To make more like or more in the character of a city.
   • Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers.1975, Robert Lipsyte, Sportsworld: an American Dreamland
3. (informal, transitive) To make more like a city person.
   • We may be clothed, citified, and civilized, but we carry deep within us the genetic patterns of behavior that served our ancestor, the "killer ape."1992 July 17, Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 239