"oldify" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "old + -ify",
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  "etymology_text": "old + -ify",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oldifies",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oldifying",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "oldified",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Baroness Dorothea Mary Roby Thorpe Charnwood, Call Back Yesterday, page 172",
          "text": "He is become very tottering & oldified & Souk now beats him in bodily strength.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Roy Christian, Derbyshire, page 36",
          "text": "Mickleover has a good timber-framed house tucked away behind a still rural-looking village square, and Chellaston, besides some buildings on the main street and one old pub that has been modernised and re-oldified, has the memory of its former importance in the alabaster industry.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Theatre Record, page 1096",
          "text": "It is written in a vaguely oldified English - the sort of language an upmarket Hollywood hack might imagine them speaking at a jousting tournament circa 1180.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Louisa Blair, The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City - Volume 2, page 50",
          "text": "He cared more about history, and had vast projects for preserving, beautifying and “oldifying\" the city.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Todd Yard, Matt Voerman, Paul Barnes-Hoggett, Flash 8 Essentials, page 276",
          "text": "In the following example, I'm going to show you how to “oldify” an image by giving it a sepia tint and adding some noise to it to make it seem a bit less crisp.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Nude, page 35",
          "text": "Me and Dad would go to auctions and buy bits and bobs, then we'd oldify them — a sup of tea on a map, an ancient frame on a new picture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to appear older."
      ],
      "id": "en-oldify-en-verb-sIOg7QkU"
    }
  ],
  "word": "oldify"
}

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        "2": "old",
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  "etymology_text": "old + -ify",
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      "form": "oldifies",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oldifying",
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    },
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      "form": "oldified",
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    },
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        {
          "ref": "1938, Baroness Dorothea Mary Roby Thorpe Charnwood, Call Back Yesterday, page 172",
          "text": "He is become very tottering & oldified & Souk now beats him in bodily strength.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, Roy Christian, Derbyshire, page 36",
          "text": "Mickleover has a good timber-framed house tucked away behind a still rural-looking village square, and Chellaston, besides some buildings on the main street and one old pub that has been modernised and re-oldified, has the memory of its former importance in the alabaster industry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Theatre Record, page 1096",
          "text": "It is written in a vaguely oldified English - the sort of language an upmarket Hollywood hack might imagine them speaking at a jousting tournament circa 1180.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Louisa Blair, The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City - Volume 2, page 50",
          "text": "He cared more about history, and had vast projects for preserving, beautifying and “oldifying\" the city.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Todd Yard, Matt Voerman, Paul Barnes-Hoggett, Flash 8 Essentials, page 276",
          "text": "In the following example, I'm going to show you how to “oldify” an image by giving it a sepia tint and adding some noise to it to make it seem a bit less crisp.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Nude, page 35",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause to appear older."
      ]
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  "word": "oldify"
}