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frenchifying

frenchifying is the present participle and gerund of frenchify.

Meaning of frenchify

Verb

frenchify (third-person singular simple present frenchifies, present participle frenchifying, simple past and past participle frenchified)

  1. (transitive) To make French or more French-like in any way.
    • This café likes to frenchify the names of its dishes to make them sound better than they actually are — they call their fish and chips "poisson-frites".
  2. (intransitive) To become French or more French-like.
    • This restaurant has frenchified.
  3. (transitive, uncommon) Synonym of gallicize, to translate into the French language.
    Synonyms:
    gallicize, to translate into the French language

Verb capitalized: Frenchifying

Frenchifying

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of Frenchify

Noun capitalized: Frenchifying

Frenchifying (uncountable)

  1. Frenchification

Forms of frenchifying

alternative formfrenchifying

Questions about frenchifying

What does frenchifying mean?
Frenchifying means frenchification.
What is frenchifying the present participle and gerund of?
Frenchifying is the present participle and gerund of frenchify.
What part of speech is frenchifying?
Frenchifying can be a verb or a noun.

Words near frenchifying in the dictionary

  1. Frenchification
  2. Frenchifications
  3. frenchified
  4. frenchifies
  5. frenchify
  6. frenchifying
  7. Frenchiko
  8. Frenchily
  9. Frenchiness
  10. frenching
  11. frenchise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frenchifying (page history and authors); Frenchifying (page history and authors); frenchify (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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