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duncify

duncify verb: to make stupid in intellect.

Verb

duncify (third-person singular simple present duncifies, present participle duncifying, simple past and past participle duncified)

  1. (transitive) To make stupid in intellect.
    • July 8 1759 William Warburton, letter to Richard Hurd
      Here you have a fellow ten thousand times more duncified than dunce Webster

Forms of duncify

third-person singular presentduncifies
present participleduncifying
past participleduncified
pastduncified

Origin of duncify

From dunce + -ify.

Questions about duncify

What does duncify mean?
Duncify means to make stupid in intellect.
What part of speech is duncify?
Duncify is a verb.
What is the past tense of duncify?
The past tense of duncify is duncified.

Words near duncify in the dictionary

  1. Dunciad
  2. Dunciads
  3. duncical
  4. duncified
  5. duncifies
  6. duncify
  7. duncifying
  8. duncish
  9. duncishly
  10. duncishness
  11. Dunckley

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