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goodifying

goodifying is the present participle and gerund of goodify.

Meaning of goodify

Verb

goodify (third-person singular simple present goodifies, present participle goodifying, simple past and past participle goodified)

  1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To make good; to improve.
    • All its goodness wears a sickly hue: it is only the badness of the reckless brother that claims our interest, and even he is “goodified” at the end.1879, The International Review, volume 6, page 712
  2. (Internet, ethnic, offensive, slur, transitive) To kill or murder a black person.
    • The trigger niggers, Samuel Fayomi Brown, 20, of Hyattsville, and Tierek Ty Jay Thomas, 20, of Washington, police say, had a plan: Lure a marijuana dealer, to a dead-end street, surround its hooptie and take its $1,000 worth of pot.
      Goodified in the incident was Waasi Harron Raheem Young, 20, a...2017 March 16, Rick Mathers, “"You are shooting me!"”, in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022

Questions about goodifying

What is goodifying the present participle and gerund of?
Goodifying is the present participle and gerund of goodify.

Words near goodifying in the dictionary

  1. goodification
  2. goodifications
  3. goodified
  4. goodifies
  5. goodify
  6. goodifying
  7. Goodin
  8. Goodine
  9. Goodines
  10. goodiness
  11. gooding

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