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oddifying

oddifying is the present participle and gerund of oddify.

Meaning of oddify

Verb

oddify (third-person singular simple present oddifies, present participle oddifying, simple past and past participle oddified)

  1. To cause to appear strange.
    • And since, as I suggested at the beginning of this essay, all people are alike in being somewhat odd, and since all writers are alike in being similarly oddified in their work, it may be that many children's writers will agree that their own reasons for doing what they do are not very dissimilar...1975, Edward Blishen, The thorny paradise: writers on writing for children, page 56
  2. To make odd (not even).
    • The inverse quantized coefficients are oddified following the MPEG-1 (and H.261) method.1997, Joan L. Mitchell, Chad Fogg, Didier J. LeGall, MPEG Video Compression Standard, →ISBN, page 417

Questions about oddifying

What is oddifying the present participle and gerund of?
Oddifying is the present participle and gerund of oddify.

Words near oddifying in the dictionary

  1. Oddie
  2. oddification
  3. oddified
  4. oddifies
  5. oddify
  6. oddifying
  7. Oddingley
  8. Oddington
  9. oddish
  10. oddities
  11. odditorium

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