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sicklifies

sicklifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 sicklifies

What is sicklifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sicklifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sicklify.

Words near sicklifies in the dictionary

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

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