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LIGNIFY
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected form: lignified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they lignify ... he / she / it lignifies
Past simple: lignified
-ing form: lignifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Convert into wood or cause to become woody
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "lignify" is one way to...):
convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something