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nigrify

nigrify verb: to make black in colour; to blacken.

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

Forms of nigrify

third-person singular presentnigrifies
present participlenigrifying
past participlenigrified
pastnigrified

Questions about nigrify

What does nigrify mean?
Nigrify means to make black in colour; to blacken.
What part of speech is nigrify?
Nigrify is a verb.
What is the past tense of nigrify?
The past tense of nigrify is nigrified.

Words near nigrify in the dictionary

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

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