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flaccify

flaccify verb: to render flaccid.

Verb

flaccify (third-person singular simple present flaccifies, present participle flaccifying, simple past and past participle flaccified)

  1. (rare, transitive) To render flaccid.
    • The reverend gentleman got into his gig with a slight effort, for it was high-hung, and at fifty men are not, for the most part, so lithe as they once were, especially if good living and an orderly or rather somnolent course of existence have increased their bulk, and somewhat flaccified their...1870, George Robert Gleig, The Harrises, an Extract from the Common-Place Book of Alexander Smith, the Elder, page 245
    • Some lead lives of sedentariness and sluggishness, sleep away their brains and flaccify their tissues, others vie with the athletes and aspire to emulate the sculpture models of the ancients, but are disappointed when it is too late.1873 September 27, “Dyspepsia or Infigestion”, in Medical Notes and Queries, volume 1, page 216

Forms of flaccify

third-person singular presentflaccifies
present participleflaccifying
past participleflaccified
pastflaccified

Origin of flaccify

From flaccid + -ify.

Questions about flaccify

What does flaccify mean?
Flaccify means to render flaccid.
What part of speech is flaccify?
Flaccify is a verb.
What is the past tense of flaccify?
The past tense of flaccify is flaccified.

Words near flaccify in the dictionary

  1. flaccidity
  2. flaccidly
  3. flaccidness
  4. flaccified
  5. flaccifies
  6. flaccify
  7. flaccifying
  8. Flach
  9. flacherie
  10. flachkarren
  11. Flacian

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