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enshittify

enshittify verb: to make (especially an online platform) worse by enshittification.

Verb

enshittify (third-person singular simple present enshittifies, present participle enshittifying, simple past and past participle enshittified)

  1. (neologism) To make (especially an online platform) worse by enshittification.
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Antonyms of enshittify

Forms of enshittify

third-person singular presentenshittifies
present participleenshittifying
past participleenshittified
pastenshittified

Origin of enshittify

From en- + shittify. Coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in 2022 along with enshittification.

Questions about enshittify

What does enshittify mean?
Enshittify means to make (especially an online platform) worse by enshittification.
What part of speech is enshittify?
Enshittify is a verb.
What is the past tense of enshittify?
The past tense of enshittify is enshittified.

Words near enshittify in the dictionary

  1. enshittening
  2. enshitternet
  3. enshittification
  4. enshittified
  5. enshittifies
  6. enshittify
  7. enshittifying
  8. enshrine
  9. enshrined
  10. enshrinee
  11. enshrinees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enshittify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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