Passify

Quick meaning: Passify is a verb meaning (rare) To make or become passive.

Meaning

(rare) To make or become passive.

Example Sentences

Finally, [the command] passify does not generate version-optimal programs; the notion of version-optimal passive form, which uses the [...]

A passive investor invests in the market portfolio as if he shared the average belief of the investors. [...] Every investor has the choice to “passify” if he discovers himself to be a loser of the zero sum game.

For non-passive systems, however, passivity-based control techniques cannot be used directly. One way of making nonpassive systems amenable to passivity-based control is to render such systems passive, i.e., to passify them[.]

The distinction between the two voices, active and passive, is easy enough to make. The way you "passify" a verb is to start out with some form of the auxiliary "to be" and follow the auxiliary with the past participle of the verb.

Word Forms

• passifies
• passifying
• passified

Synonyms for passify

Depending on context, synonyms include passivize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pass, forpass, unpass, pall, lapse, elapse.

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