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nigrified

nigrified is the simple past and past participle of nigrify.

Meaning of nigrify

Verb

nigrify (third-person singular simple present nigrifies, present participle nigrifying, simple past and past participle nigrified)

  1. (transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken.
    • An adventurous London journalist, who is going to Abyssinia in advance of the expedition, tried to nigrify himself recently with tincture of iodine.1868, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volumes 27-28, page 97

Questions about nigrified

What is nigrified the simple past and past participle of?
Nigrified is the simple past and past participle of nigrify.

Words near nigrified in the dictionary

  1. nigress
  2. nigresses
  3. nigric
  4. nigricant
  5. nigrification
  6. nigrified
  7. nigrifies
  8. nigrify
  9. nigrifying
  10. nigrin
  11. nigrine

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