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sicklify

sicklify verb: to make sickly or sickish.

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

Forms of sicklify

third-person singular presentsicklifies
present participlesicklifying
past participlesicklified
pastsicklified

Origin of sicklify

From sickly + -fy.

Questions about sicklify

What does sicklify mean?
Sicklify means to make sickly or sickish.
What part of speech is sicklify?
Sicklify is a verb.
What is the past tense of sicklify?
The past tense of sicklify is sicklified.

Words near sicklify in the dictionary

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

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