safetify
safetify verb: to make safe, to add safety to.
Verb
safetify (third-person singular simple present safetifies, present participle safetifying, simple past and past participle safetified)
- To make safe, to add safety to.
- If all life were appraised at the same value there would be a stampede of owners to safetify their shaftway doors, where 85% of all elevator fatalities occur.1916, “The Man is Dead! (Ad for Shur-Loc elevator safety)”, in The International Steam Engineer, page 65
- These cheap, electrical substitutes for real safety have not only failed to safetify, …1920, “The Certified List of Elevator Killings in the Borough of Manhattan Alone, 1907 to 1915 inclusive”, in The Elevator Constructor, page 9
Synonyms of safetify
Forms of safetify
| third-person singular present | safetifies |
|---|---|
| present participle | safetifying |
| past participle | safetified |
| past | safetified |
Origin of safetify
From safety + -ify.
Questions about safetify
- What does safetify mean?
- Safetify means to make safe, to add safety to.
- What part of speech is safetify?
- Safetify is a verb.
- What is the past tense of safetify?
- The past tense of safetify is safetified.
Words near safetify in the dictionary
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