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NUTRIFY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nutrify mean?
• NUTRIFY (verb)
The verb NUTRIFY has 1 sense:
1. give nourishment to
Familiarity information: NUTRIFY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they nutrify ... he / she / it nutrifies
Past simple: nutrified
Past participle: nutrified
-ing form: nutrifying
... he / she / it nutrifies Past simple: nutrified
Past participle: nutrified
-ing form: nutrifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give nourishment to
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "nutrify" is one way to...):
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)
nutrition ((physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance)
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