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entify

entify verb: to make into an entity, attribute objective existence to.

Verb

entify (third-person singular simple present entifies, present participle entifying, simple past and past participle entified)

  1. To make into an entity, attribute objective existence to.
    • The man unnerved me, but his nonsensical rambling became a sort of entertaining white-noise sound track to everything that I pretended or perhaps hoped would entify, cystallize, or coalesce at some point into something vaguely useful or at least coherent, however shapeless.2009, Percival Everett, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Influx Press, page 151

Forms of entify

third-person singular presententifies
present participleentifying
past participleentified
pastentified

Questions about entify

What does entify mean?
Entify means to make into an entity, attribute objective existence to.
What part of speech is entify?
Entify is a verb.
What is the past tense of entify?
The past tense of entify is entified.

Words near entify in the dictionary

  1. entierty
  2. entification
  3. entifications
  4. entified
  5. entifies
  6. entify
  7. entifying
  8. entimine
  9. entimines
  10. entincture
  11. entinctured

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