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hungrify

hungrify verb: to make hungry.

Verb

hungrify (third-person singular simple present hungrifies, present participle hungrifying, simple past and past participle hungrified)

  1. (informal, transitive) To make hungry.
    • There is no difference between the appetizing or hungrifying effect of dietary stimuli and the appetizing or hungrifying effect of internal signals, […]2016, David Booth, The Psychology of Nutrition, page 61

Forms of hungrify

third-person singular presenthungrifies
present participlehungrifying
past participlehungrified
pasthungrified

Origin of hungrify

From hungry + -ify.

Questions about hungrify

What does hungrify mean?
Hungrify means to make hungry.
What part of speech is hungrify?
Hungrify is a verb.
What is the past tense of hungrify?
The past tense of hungrify is hungrified.

Words near hungrify in the dictionary

  1. hungrier
  2. hungries
  3. hungriest
  4. hungrified
  5. hungrifies
  6. hungrify
  7. hungrifying
  8. hungrily
  9. hungriness
  10. hungrisome
  11. hungry

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