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entifying

entifying is the present participle and gerund of entify.

Meaning of entify

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

Questions about entifying

What is entifying the present participle and gerund of?
Entifying is the present participle and gerund of entify.

Words near entifying in the dictionary

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

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