"nigrify" meaning in All languages combined

See nigrify on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: nigrifies [present, singular, third-person], nigrifying [participle, present], nigrified [participle, past], nigrified [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} nigrify (third-person singular simple present nigrifies, present participle nigrifying, simple past and past participle nigrified)
  1. (transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-nigrify-en-verb-zyRRpsWh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nigrified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volumes 27-28, page 97",
          "text": "An adventurous London journalist, who is going to Abyssinia in advance of the expedition, tried to nigrify himself recently with tincture of iodine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To make black in colour; to blacken."
      ],
      "id": "en-nigrify-en-verb-zyRRpsWh",
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          "black",
          "black"
        ],
        [
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          "blacken"
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      ],
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        "(transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nigrify"
}
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nigrifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nigrified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "nigrified",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "(transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken."
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