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stubify

stubify verb: to make something use stubs (placeholder procedures).

Verb

stubify (third-person singular simple present stubifies, present participle stubifying, simple past and past participle stubified)

  1. (transitive) To make something use stubs (placeholder procedures).
  2. (wiki jargon) To turn (an article) into a stub, typically due to the rest containing unsalvageably inappropriate or useless content.

Forms of stubify

third-person singular presentstubifies
present participlestubifying
past participlestubified
paststubified
alternative form (rare)stubbify

Origin of stubify

From stub + -ify.

Questions about stubify

What does stubify mean?
Stubify means to make something use stubs (placeholder procedures).
What part of speech is stubify?
Stubify is a verb.
What is the past tense of stubify?
The past tense of stubify is stubified.

Words near stubify in the dictionary

  1. stube
  2. Stuber
  3. Stubers
  4. stubified
  5. stubifies
  6. stubify
  7. stubifying
  8. Stubičke Toplice
  9. stubless
  10. stublike
  11. stubly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stubify (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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