| CAPRIFY | • caprify v. (Transitive) To pollinate (figs) by caprification. • CAPRIFY v. to cultivate the goat-fig. |
| CLARIFY | • clarify v. (Of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter. • clarify v. To make clear or easily understood; to explain in order to remove doubt or obscurity. • clarify v. (Ergative) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine… |
| GLORIFY | • glorify v. (Transitive) To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone). • glorify v. (Transitive) To make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is; regard something or someone… • glorify v. (Transitive) To worship or extol. |
| HORRIFY | • horrify v. To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror. • HORRIFY v. to cause a reaction of horror. |
| METRIFY | • metrify v. To make verse. • metrify v. (US, Canada) metricate. • METRIFY v. to compose in metrical form. |
| MICRIFY | • MICRIFY v. to make small. |
| NIGRIFY | • nigrify v. (Transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken. • NIGRIFY v. to blacken. |
| NITRIFY | • nitrify v. (Transitive) To treat, or react with nitrogen or a nitrogen-containing compound. • nitrify v. (Transitive) To convert ammonia or similar compound to a nitrate by oxidation, especially by the action… • nitrify v. (Intransitive) To become nitre. |
| PETRIFY | • petrify v. To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals. • petrify v. To produce rigidity akin to stone. • petrify v. To immobilize with fright. |
| SACRIFY | • sacrify v. Obsolete form of sacrifice. • SACRIFY v. to sacrifice. |
| SCARIFY | • scarify v. (Horticulture) To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch. • scarify v. To make scratches or cuts on. • scarify v. To harrow the feelings. |
| SCORIFY | • scorify v. (Transitive) To reduce (an ore) to scoria. • SCORIFY v. to reduce to scoria. |
| TERRIFY | • terrify v. To frighten greatly; to fill with terror. • terrify v. To menace or intimidate. • terrify v. (Obsolete) To make terrible. |
| THURIFY | • thurify v. (Transitive) To cense; to perfume with incense. • THURIFY v. to perfume with incense. |
| TORRIFY | • torrify v. Alternative form of torrefy. • TORRIFY v. to subject to intense heat, also TORREFY. |
| VITRIFY | • vitrify v. (Transitive) To convert into glass or a glass-like substance by heat and fusion. • vitrify v. (Intransitive) To be converted into glass, especially through heat. • VITRIFY v. to convert into glass. |