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CITIFY (citified)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does citify mean? 

CITIFY (verb)
  The verb CITIFY has 1 sense:

1. accustom to urban waysplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CITIFY (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Accustom to urban ways

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Immigration will citify the country?

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

adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

city (people living in a large densely populated municipality)

city (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)


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