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FANCIFY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fancify mean? 

FANCIFY (verb)
  The verb FANCIFY has 1 sense:

1. make more beautifulplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


FANCIFY (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Make more beautiful

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify

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

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fancify"):

groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)

curry; dress; groom (give a neat appearance to)

dress up; window-dress (make something appear superficially attractive)

slick up; smarten up; spiff up; spruce; spruce up; titivate; tittivate (make neat, smart, or trim)

polish; shine; smooth; smoothen (make (a surface) shine)

become; suit (enhance the appearance of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something


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