"betterfy" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "better",
        "3": "fy"
      },
      "expansion": "better + -fy",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "better + -fy",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "betterfies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betterfying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betterfied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betterfied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "betterfy (third-person singular simple present betterfies, present participle betterfying, simple past and past participle betterfied)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -fy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, Frances Trollope, Lynch Law; or, the Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, page 25",
          "text": "The kind-hearted Clio encouraged her hopes, and recounted sundry histories which she had heard from their forest customers, of the betterfying effects of the handsome locations round Natchez.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Civic League Bulletin of Newport, R.I., volume 4, number 1, page 5",
          "text": "And so the citizens of Fort Wayne desiring to “beautify and betterfy” their home town looked about for a leader and found one in Prof. Charles Zueblin, a civic evangelist who had stirred Grand Rapids in a somewhat similar movement about a year before.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Erica Hayes, Blood Cursed, page 304",
          "text": "You betterfy me, angel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make better"
      ],
      "id": "en-betterfy-en-verb-EsUaenrZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "better",
          "better"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, US, slang, rare, nonstandard) to make better"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "nonstandard",
        "rare",
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "betterfy"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "better",
        "3": "fy"
      },
      "expansion": "better + -fy",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "better + -fy",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "betterfies",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betterfying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betterfied",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betterfied",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "betterfy (third-person singular simple present betterfies, present participle betterfying, simple past and past participle betterfied)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nonstandard terms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms suffixed with -fy",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, Frances Trollope, Lynch Law; or, the Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, page 25",
          "text": "The kind-hearted Clio encouraged her hopes, and recounted sundry histories which she had heard from their forest customers, of the betterfying effects of the handsome locations round Natchez.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Civic League Bulletin of Newport, R.I., volume 4, number 1, page 5",
          "text": "And so the citizens of Fort Wayne desiring to “beautify and betterfy” their home town looked about for a leader and found one in Prof. Charles Zueblin, a civic evangelist who had stirred Grand Rapids in a somewhat similar movement about a year before.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Erica Hayes, Blood Cursed, page 304",
          "text": "You betterfy me, angel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to make better"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "better",
          "better"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, US, slang, rare, nonstandard) to make better"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "nonstandard",
        "rare",
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "betterfy"
}