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FANCIFY

Dictionary entry overview: What does fancify mean?

• FANCIFY (verb)
The verb FANCIFY has 1 sense:

1. make more beautiful

Familiarity information: FANCIFY used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FANCIFY (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Make more beautiful

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

beautify; fancify; prettify; embellish

Hypernyms (to "fancify" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fancify"):

groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)

curry; dress; groom (give a neat appearance to)

dress up; window-dress (make something appear superficially attractive)

slick up; smarten up; spiff up; spruce; spruce up; titivate; tittivate (make neat, smart, or trim)

polish; shine; smooth; smoothen (make (a surface) shine)

become; suit (enhance the appearance of)

Sentence frames:

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