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stubbifying

stubbifying is the present participle and gerund of stubbify.

Meaning of stubbify

Verb

stubbify (third-person singular simple present stubbifies, present participle stubbifying, simple past and past participle stubbified)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) use stubs (placeholder procedures).
  2. (transitive) To reduce (something) to a stub.
    • On May 14, 2008, after I made a change to the article on Crews, Kukini made a minor edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick_C._Crews&diff=prev&oldid=212449449], tidying up what I had done. He did this so quickly that I would guess that he must have been closely monitoring my edits...2008 November 30, Nomen Nescio, “ABIGTESTS”, in alt.test (Usenet)

Questions about stubbifying

What is stubbifying the present participle and gerund of?
Stubbifying is the present participle and gerund of stubbify.

Words near stubbifying in the dictionary

  1. stubbies
  2. stubbiest
  3. stubbified
  4. stubbifies
  5. stubbify
  6. stubbifying
  7. stubbily
  8. stubbiness
  9. stubbing
  10. stubbing out
  11. stubbings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stubbifying (page history and authors); stubbify (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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