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museumifying

museumifying is the present participle and gerund of museumify.

Meaning of museumify

Verb

museumify (third-person singular simple present museumifies, present participle museumifying, simple past and past participle museumified)

  1. Synonym of museumize.
    • It ended with the Chinese Communists, as inheritors of China’s history, “museumifying” the past that their own sense of Chineseness would not comfortably let them denounce in total.1976, Ralph C. Croizier, “China’s Worlds: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the “Problem of Chinese Identity””, in Maurice Meisner, Rhoads Murphey, editors, The Mozartian Historian: Essays on the...
    Synonyms:
    museumize

Questions about museumifying

What is museumifying the present participle and gerund of?
Museumifying is the present participle and gerund of museumify.

Words near museumifying in the dictionary

  1. museumgoing
  2. museumification
  3. museumified
  4. museumifies
  5. museumify
  6. museumifying
  7. museuming
  8. museumist
  9. museumists
  10. museumite
  11. museumization

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