| petrify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: lapidify |
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| (verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, rigidify |
| petrifying | (adjective) paralyzing with terror | - |
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| pinkify | (verb) make pink | - |
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| preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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| prettify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, fancify |
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| purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
| (verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
| purifying | (adjective) freeing from noxious matter | - |
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| (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purging |
| (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: cleansing |
| qualify | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: dispose |
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| (verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: modify |
| (verb) make more specific | - |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate |
| (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, characterize |
| (verb) pronounce fit or able | - |
| (verb) prove capable or fit; meet requirements | Synonyms: measure up |
| qualifying | (noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: pass, passing |
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| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: limiting, modification |
| quantify | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: measure |
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| (verb) use as a quantifier | - |
| ramify | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: branch |
| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: complexify |
| rarify | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, refine |
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| ratify | (verb) approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation | Synonyms: sign |
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| reclassify | (verb) classify anew, change the previous classification | - |
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| rectify | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, remediate, remedy, repair |
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| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, right |
| (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: refine |
| (verb) convert into direct current | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) determine the length of | - |
| reify | (verb) consider an abstract concept to be real | - |
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| reunify | (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunite |
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| revivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, vivify |
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| rigidify | (verb) become rigid | - |
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| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, petrify |
| rigidifying | (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidification, stiffening |
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| rubify | (verb) make ruby red | - |
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| saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
| salsify | (noun) either of two long roots eaten cooked | - |
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| (noun) Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States | Synonyms: oyster plant, Tragopogon porrifolius, vegetable oyster |
| (noun) edible root of the salsify plant | Synonyms: oyster plant |
| sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
| saponify | (verb) convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali | - |
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| (verb) become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali | - |
| scarify | (verb) puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals | - |
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| (verb) break up | - |
| (verb) scratch the surface of | - |
| sensify | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensitise, sensitize |
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| signify | (verb) convey or express a meaning | - |
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| (verb) make known with a word or signal | - |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, mean, stand for |
| simplify | (verb) make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent | - |
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| solidify | (verb) become solid | - |
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| (verb) make solid or more solid; cause to solidify | - |
| solidifying | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, hardening, set, solidification |
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| specify | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, destine, intend |
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| (verb) define clearly | Synonyms: nail down, narrow, narrow down, peg down, pin down |
| (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose | Synonyms: assign, set apart |
| (verb) be specific about | Synonyms: particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, limit, set |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, stipulate |
| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delimitate, delineate |
| speechify | (verb) make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality | - |
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| stratify | (verb) render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand | - |
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| (verb) form layers or strata | - |
| (verb) form, arrange, or deposit in layers | - |
| (verb) divide society into social classes or castes | - |
| (verb) develop different social levels, classes, or castes | - |
| stultify | (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: cripple |
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| (verb) cause to appear foolish | - |
| (verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence | - |
| syllabify | (verb) divide into syllables | Synonyms: syllabicate, syllabise, syllabize |
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| terrify | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize |
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| terrifying | (adjective) causing extreme terror | Synonyms: terrific |
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| testify | (verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: attest, bear witness, take the stand |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, show |
| thurify | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: cense, incense |
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| transmogrify | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transfigure |
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| typify | (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: represent, stand for, symbolise, symbolize |
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| (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, epitomize |
| uglify | (verb) make ugly | - |
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| unedifying | (adjective) not edifying | Synonyms: unenlightening |
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| ungratifying | (adjective) not likely to be rewarded | Synonyms: thankless, unappreciated |
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| unify | (verb) become one | Synonyms: merge, unite |
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| (verb) join or combine | Synonyms: merge, unite |
| (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix |
| (verb) act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief | Synonyms: unite |
| (verb) bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation | Synonyms: unite |
| unifying | (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: centripetal |
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| (adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: consolidative |
| unsanctify | (verb) remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified | - |
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| verbify | (verb) make into a verb | - |
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| verify | (verb) confirm the truth of | - |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear |
| (verb) attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition) | - |
| (verb) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | Synonyms: control |
| verifying | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory |
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| versify | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, poetize, verse |
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| vilify | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, revile, vituperate |
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| vinify | (verb) convert a juice into wine by fermentation | - |
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| vitrify | (verb) undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like | - |
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| (verb) change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat | - |
| vivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify |
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| (verb) make more striking or animated | - |