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sicklified

sicklified is the simple past and past participle of sicklify.

Meaning of sicklify

Verb

sicklify (third-person singular simple present sicklifies, present participle sicklifying, simple past and past participle sicklified)

  1. (dated, nonstandard, rare, transitive) To make sickly or sickish
    • […] and sent forth as supposed good books, only to serve as trash, instead of bread, for Sunday-school children, and to sicklify and sentimentalize good girls; while they are the derision of all the stronger minded.1874, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, volume 18, London, page 192

Questions about sicklified

What is sicklified the simple past and past participle of?
Sicklified is the simple past and past participle of sicklify.

Words near sicklified in the dictionary

  1. sicklewort
  2. sicklied
  3. sicklier
  4. sicklies
  5. sickliest
  6. sicklified
  7. sicklifies
  8. sicklify
  9. sicklifying
  10. sicklily
  11. sickliness

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