"lowercasify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: lowercasifies [present, singular, third-person], lowercasifying [participle, present], lowercasified [participle, past], lowercasified [past]
Etymology: lower case + -ify Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lower case|ify}} lower case + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} lowercasify (third-person singular simple present lowercasifies, present participle lowercasifying, simple past and past participle lowercasified)
  1. (informal, computing) To make lower case. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: to make lowercase [lowercase, verb]

Inflected forms

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