nigrify en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken.
An adventurous London journalist, who is going to Abyssinia in advance of the expedition, tried to nigrify himself recently with tincture of iodine.
1868, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volumes 27-28, page 97:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| nigrifying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| nigrifies | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| nigrified | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| nigrified | Tense=Past | lexicographic |