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monstrosify

monstrosify verb: to make into a monstrosity.

Verb

monstrosify (third-person singular simple present monstrosifies, present participle monstrosifying, simple past and past participle monstrosified)

  1. To make into a monstrosity.
    • XXXII. Honour and right principle. [Lord Byron monstrosified by Dr. Faustus, and his own vanity, (over and above the romantic defamation of extravagant admirers.)] The heart and the lips,1835, Laughton Osborn, “Contents of Vol. I.”, in Confessions of a Poet, volume First, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page vii
    • We have Corinthian columns placed beside pilasters of no order at all, surmounted by monstrosified pepper-boxes, Gothic in form and Grecian in detail, in a building nominally and peculiarly national;[…]1837 November, Kata Phusin [pseudonym; John Ruskin], “The Poetry of Architecture: No. 1. Introduction”, in J. C. Loudon, editor, The Architectural Magazine, volume IV, number 45, London: Longman...

Forms of monstrosify

third-person singular presentmonstrosifies
present participlemonstrosifying
past participlemonstrosified
pastmonstrosified

Origin of monstrosify

From monstrosity + -ify.

Questions about monstrosify

What does monstrosify mean?
Monstrosify means to make into a monstrosity.
What part of speech is monstrosify?
Monstrosify is a verb.
What is the past tense of monstrosify?
The past tense of monstrosify is monstrosified.

Words near monstrosify in the dictionary

  1. monstrilloids
  2. monstrocious
  3. monstrose
  4. monstrosified
  5. monstrosifies
  6. monstrosify
  7. monstrosifying
  8. monstrosities
  9. monstrosity
  10. monstrous
  11. monstrous agreement

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