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cretify

cretify verb: to become impregnated with salts of lime.

Verb

cretify (third-person singular simple present cretifies, present participle cretifying, simple past and past participle cretified)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become impregnated with salts of lime.

Forms of cretify

third-person singular presentcretifies
present participlecretifying
past participlecretified
pastcretified

Origin of cretify

From Latin creta (“chalk”) + -ify.

Questions about cretify

What does cretify mean?
Cretify means to become impregnated with salts of lime.
What part of speech is cretify?
Cretify is a verb.
What is the past tense of cretify?
The past tense of cretify is cretified.

Words near cretify in the dictionary

  1. creticks
  2. cretics
  3. cretifaction
  4. cretified
  5. cretifies
  6. cretify
  7. cretifying
  8. cretin
  9. cretinic
  10. cretinise
  11. cretinised

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