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scorifying

scorifying is the present participle and gerund of scorify.

Meaning of scorify

Verb

scorify (third-person singular simple present scorifies, present participle scorifying, simple past and past participle scorified)

  1. (transitive) To reduce (an ore) to scoria.

Questions about scorifying

What is scorifying the present participle and gerund of?
Scorifying is the present participle and gerund of scorify.

Words near scorifying in the dictionary

  1. scorifier
  2. scorifiers
  3. scorifies
  4. scoriform
  5. scorify
  6. scorifying
  7. scorigami
  8. scorigamis
  9. scoring
  10. scoring off
  11. scoring on oneself

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scorifying (page history and authors); scorify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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