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gypsifying

gypsifying is the present participle and gerund of gypsify.

Meaning of gypsify

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

Questions about gypsifying

What is gypsifying the present participle and gerund of?
Gypsifying is the present participle and gerund of gypsify.

Words near gypsifying in the dictionary

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

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