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NIGRIFY (nigrified)

Dictionary entry overview: What does nigrify mean?

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

1. make or become black

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

Dictionary entry details

• NIGRIFY (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Make or become black

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

black; blacken; nigrify; melanise; melanize

Context examples:

The smoke blackened the ceiling / The ceiling blackened

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

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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