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flaccifying

flaccifying is the present participle and gerund of flaccify.

Meaning of flaccify

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

Questions about flaccifying

What is flaccifying the present participle and gerund of?
Flaccifying is the present participle and gerund of flaccify.

Words near flaccifying in the dictionary

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

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