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gypsify

gypsify verb: to diagenetically alter to gypsum.

Verb (1)

gypsify (third-person singular simple present gypsifies, present participle gypsifying, simple past and past participle gypsified)

  1. To diagenetically alter to gypsum.

Verb (2)

gypsify (third-person singular simple present gypsifies, present participle gypsifying, simple past and past participle gypsified)

  1. (offensive, sometimes) To become or make gypsy.
    • Now, his instrument was not hard to identify as a concert grand, by its enormously hard wood block, by the astounding coldness of tone, by the gypsifying strings which were fatter than a female jurisprudent, fatter than a woman with a law degree;2013, Jürg Laederach, Whole of Life

Forms of gypsify

third-person singular presentgypsifies
present participlegypsifying
past participlegypsified
pastgypsified
alternative formgypsyfy

Origin of gypsify

From gypsum + -ify.

From gypsy + -ify.

Questions about gypsify

What does gypsify mean?
Gypsify means to diagenetically alter to gypsum.
What part of speech is gypsify?
Gypsify is a verb.
What is the past tense of gypsify?
The past tense of gypsify is gypsified.

Words near gypsify in the dictionary

  1. gypsies
  2. gypsiferous
  3. gypsification
  4. gypsified
  5. gypsifies
  6. gypsify
  7. gypsifying
  8. gypsiologist
  9. gypsiologists
  10. gypsiology
  11. gypsiorthid

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