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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

blandify en · VERB

Etymology

From bland + -ify.

Meanings

  1. (rare, transitive) To make bland.
    • There’d been a time when those still devoted to some norm of propriety had tried to paint the words over, but a few kids bent on self-expressive anarchy could destroy in an hour a white surface it had taken a crew three days to blandify. 2013, Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam, Bloomsbury, page 98:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
blandifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
blandifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blandified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blandified Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

blandification