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lowercasify en · VERB

Etymology

From lower case + -ify.

Meanings

  1. (informal) To make lower case.
    • Press it again (or press it when there's already a period there) and it will remove any punctuation and spaces, insert a single space, and lowercasify the following word (unless it's a word that should always be capitalized) 2006 July 9, Keith F. Lynch, “Momentarily verbal (was Re: Talking of old jokes)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):
    • Well, actually, my host is REALLY called "X", but I've already been advised to lowercasify it. 1984 September 15, John Woods, “Local site "x"”, in net.news.newsite (Usenet):
    • To think of it, propably I need to a) add a section about testing into smtpserver(8) man-page, and also b) lowercasify the lookup key of "aliases". 2000 November 18, Matti Aarnio, “ORBS Problem”, in muc.lists.zmailer (Usenet):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
lowercasified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lowercasified Tense=Past lexicographic
lowercasifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
lowercasifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

to make lowercase