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massified

massified is the simple past and past participle of massify.

Meaning of massify

Verb

massify (third-person singular simple present massifies, present participle massifying, simple past and past participle massified)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To become, or cause to become, oriented toward mass production, mass consumption, and high throughput rather than individuality.
  2. (rare, transitive) To use as a mass noun.
    • Under deviant vocabulary we include “verbing” of nouns (He tricycled away), and perhaps “massifying” of count nouns and “countifying” of mass nouns. (Note that the preceding sentence itself contains instances of deviant vocabulary in scare quotes.) “Massifying” and “countifying” are illustrated...1992, James F. Allen and Lenhart K. Schubert, “Language and Discourse in the TRAINS Project”, in Andrew Ortony, John Slack, and Oliviero Stock (editors), Communication From an Artificial Intelligence...

Questions about massified

What is massified the simple past and past participle of?
Massified is the simple past and past participle of massify.

Words near massified in the dictionary

  1. massiest
  2. massif
  3. Massif Central
  4. massification
  5. massifications
  6. massified
  7. massifier
  8. massifiers
  9. massifies
  10. massifs
  11. massify

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