"passify" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1983, Barry Tarshis, How to Write Like a Pro: A Guide to Effective Nonfiction Writing:",
          "text": "The distinction between the two voices, active and passive, is easy enough to make. The way you \"passify\" a verb is to start out with some form of the auxiliary \"to be\" and follow the auxiliary with the past participle of the verb.",
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          "ref": "1997, 1997 American Control Conference, volume 1, of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →ISBN, page 2657:",
          "text": "For non-passive systems, however, passivity-based control techniques cannot be used directly. One way of making nonpassive systems amenable to passivity-based control is to render such systems passive, i.e., to passify them[.]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Peter Thiemann, Programming Languages and Systems: 25th European Symposium, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Finally, [the command] passify does not generate version-optimal programs; the notion of version-optimal passive form, which uses the [...]",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Thorsten Hens, Marc Oliver Rieger, Financial Economics: A Concise Introduction, →ISBN:",
          "text": "A passive investor invests in the market portfolio as if he shared the average belief of the investors. [...] Every investor has the choice to “passify” if he discovers himself to be a loser of the zero sum game.",
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        "To make or become passive."
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        "(rare) To make or become passive."
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        {
          "word": "passivize"
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