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CODIFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: codified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organize into a code or system, such as a body of law

Example:

Hammurabi codified the laws

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

systematise; systematize; systemise; systemize (arrange according to a system or reduce to a system)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

code (a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones))

codification (the act of codifying; arranging in a systematic order)

codification (a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones))

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