"blackify" meaning in All languages combined

See blackify on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: blackifies [present, singular, third-person], blackifying [participle, present], blackified [participle, past], blackified [past]
Etymology: From black + -ify. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|black|ify}} black + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} blackify (third-person singular simple present blackifies, present participle blackifying, simple past and past participle blackified)
  1. (transitive) To convert (e.g. a country, a group, etc) to the black race or culture. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-blackify-en-verb-TLtGP9-S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ify

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Her France seems to her undoubtedly blackified [translating negrificada] and Jewish."
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