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CARNIFY (carnified)

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Irregular inflected form: carnified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does carnify mean? 

CARNIFY (verb)
  The verb CARNIFY has 1 sense:

1. become muscular or fleshyplay

  Familiarity information: CARNIFY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CARNIFY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they carnify  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it carnifies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: carnified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: carnified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: carnifying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Become muscular or fleshy

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "carnify" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s


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