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CITIFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: citified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accustom to urban ways

Example:

Immigration will citify the country?

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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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