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uglify

verb
/ˈʌɡlɪfaɪ/

Etymology

From ugly + -fy. Sense 3 by analogy with prettify.

  1. derived from uggligr — “fearful, dreadful, horrible in appearance”
  2. inherited from ugly
  3. suffixed as uglify — “ugly + fy”

Definitions

  1. To make ugly

    To make ugly; to destroy or worsen the appearance or attractiveness of.

    • She uglifies every thing near her.
    • These guys around that block had this thing about how I was uglifying the neighborhood.

  2. To become ugly.

    • Inevitably those bodies age and uglify under her influence, but if they are outstandingly beautiful at the outset, that process takes longer.

  3. Synonym of minify.

The neighborhood

Derived

uglification

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for uglify. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA