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oldify

oldify verb: to cause to appear older.

Verb

oldify (third-person singular simple present oldifies, present participle oldifying, simple past and past participle oldified)

  1. To cause to appear older.
    • He is become very tottering & oldified & Souk now beats him in bodily strength.1938, Baroness Dorothea Mary Roby Thorpe Charnwood, Call Back Yesterday, page 172
    • Mickleover has a good timber-framed house tucked away behind a still rural-looking village square, and Chellaston, besides some buildings on the main street and one old pub that has been modernised and re-oldified, has the memory of its former importance in the alabaster industry.1978, Roy Christian, Derbyshire, page 36

Examples of oldify in a sentence

  • He cared more about history, and had vast projects for preserving, beautifying and “oldifying" the city.2005, Louisa Blair, The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City - Volume 2, page 50:
  • In the following example, I'm going to show you how to “oldify” an image by giving it a sepia tint and adding some noise to it to make it seem a bit less crisp.2006, Todd Yard, Matt Voerman, Paul Barnes-Hoggett, Flash 8 Essentials, →ISBN, page 276:
  • Me and Dad would go to auctions and buy bits and bobs, then we'd oldify them — a sup of tea on a map, an ancient frame on a new picture.2009, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Nude, →ISBN, page 35:

Forms of oldify

third-person singular presentoldifies
present participleoldifying
past participleoldified
pastoldified

Origin of oldify

From old + -ify.

Questions about oldify

What does oldify mean?
Oldify means to cause to appear older.
How do you use oldify in a sentence?
He cared more about history, and had vast projects for preserving, beautifying and “oldifying" the city.
What part of speech is oldify?
Oldify is a verb.
What is the past tense of oldify?
The past tense of oldify is oldified.

Words near oldify in the dictionary

  1. oldies
  2. oldies but goodies
  3. oldies goldies
  4. oldified
  5. oldifies
  6. oldify
  7. oldifying
  8. Oldina
  9. oldish
  10. oldishness
  11. Oldknow

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