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unfructify

unfructify verb: to make unfruitful.

Verb

unfructify (third-person singular simple present unfructifies, present participle unfructifying, simple past and past participle unfructified)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make unfruitful.
    • Their power is […] to […] unfructify Trees, parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes; bring scabs and diseases upon men, and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes […]1649, Edmund William Ashbee, Occasional Fac-simile Reprints of Rare English Tracts, page 112

Forms of unfructify

third-person singular presentunfructifies
present participleunfructifying
past participleunfructified
pastunfructified

Origin of unfructify

un- + fructify

Questions about unfructify

What does unfructify mean?
Unfructify means to make unfruitful.
What part of speech is unfructify?
Unfructify is a verb.
What is the past tense of unfructify?
The past tense of unfructify is unfructified.

Words near unfructify in the dictionary

  1. unfroze
  2. unfrozen
  3. unfructed
  4. unfructified
  5. unfructifies
  6. unfructify
  7. unfructifying
  8. unfructuous
  9. unfructuously
  10. unfrugal
  11. unfrugally

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