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sleepify

sleepify verb: to make sleepy.

Verb

sleepify (third-person singular simple present sleepifies, present participle sleepifying, simple past and past participle sleepified)

  1. (transitive) To make sleepy.
    • Sleepifying vapours are derived upwards from the meats […]1662, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Oriatrike, page 338
    • Now I am consuming cake and sherry , and trying to sleepify myself.1998, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney, I'll Stand by You: Selected Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner, page 30

Forms of sleepify

third-person singular presentsleepifies
present participlesleepifying
past participlesleepified
pastsleepified

Questions about sleepify

What does sleepify mean?
Sleepify means to make sleepy.
What part of speech is sleepify?
Sleepify is a verb.
What is the past tense of sleepify?
The past tense of sleepify is sleepified.

Words near sleepify in the dictionary

  1. sleepier
  2. sleepies
  3. sleepiest
  4. sleepified
  5. sleepifies
  6. sleepify
  7. sleepifying
  8. sleepily
  9. sleepiness
  10. sleepinesses
  11. sleeping

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