Sicklify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sicklify is a verb meaning (transitive, rare, dated, nonstandard) To make sickly or sickish.
Meaning
(transitive, rare, dated, nonstandard) To make sickly or sickish.
Example Sentences
[…] and sent forth as supposed good books, only to serve as trash, instead of bread, for Sunday-school children, and to sicklify and sentimentalize good girls; while they are the derision of all the stronger minded.
Word Forms
- sicklifies
- sicklifying
- sicklified
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sickly, etiolate, slime, smug, gloam, liquesce.
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