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nigrifies

nigrifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 nigrifies

What is nigrifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Nigrifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nigrify.

Words near nigrifies in the dictionary

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

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