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dustify

dustify verb: to turn to dust.

Verb

dustify (third-person singular simple present dustifies, present participle dustifying, simple past and past participle dustified)

  1. (ambitransitive) To turn to dust.
    • And to-morrow you shall take me out as early as you like and tramp me and freckle me and dustify me to your heart's content.1924, John Eyton, Expectancy, page 254
    • And so we artfully thrashed the poor fixture, in gratitude for happy hours, per ben fare (And did it ever dustify, and at the least we'll have to bathe this evening, worthy dictatrix!)1995, Arno Schmidt, Nobodaddy's Children, page 228

Forms of dustify

third-person singular presentdustifies
present participledustifying
past participledustified
pastdustified

Origin of dustify

From dust + -ify.

Questions about dustify

What does dustify mean?
Dustify means to turn to dust.
What part of speech is dustify?
Dustify is a verb.
What is the past tense of dustify?
The past tense of dustify is dustified.

Words near dustify in the dictionary

  1. dustiest
  2. dustification
  3. dustifications
  4. dustified
  5. dustifies
  6. dustify
  7. dustifying
  8. dustily
  9. Dustin
  10. Dustin Acres
  11. dustin'

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