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treeify

treeify verb: to turn into a tree.

treeify: to turn into a tree
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Verb

treeify (third-person singular simple present treeifies, present participle treeifying, simple past and past participle treeified)

  1. (transitive) To turn into a tree.
    • Now, Daphne — before she was happily treeified —
      Over all blossoms the lily had deified,1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics
    • 1985: Lope de Vega (Spanish); Alan S. Trueblood & Edwin Honig (tr.), La Dorotea
      Pyramus is now no suicide,
      nor are all Daphnes treeified
      (Ya no se mata Píramo,
      Ni son las Dafnes árboles)

Forms of treeify

third-person singular presenttreeifies
present participletreeifying
past participletreeified
pasttreeified

Origin of treeify

From tree + -ify.

Questions about treeify

What does treeify mean?
Treeify means to turn into a tree.
What part of speech is treeify?
Treeify is a verb.
What is the past tense of treeify?
The past tense of treeify is treeified.

Words near treeify in the dictionary

  1. treehunters
  2. treeier
  3. treeiest
  4. treeified
  5. treeifies
  6. treeify
  7. treeifying
  8. treeiness
  9. treeing
  10. Treeing Tennessee Brindle
  11. Treeing Walker Coonhound

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