Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to citify
Participle: citified
Gerund: citifying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | citify |
| you | citify |
| he;she;it | citifies |
| we | citify |
| you | citify |
| they | citify |
Perfect
| I | have citified |
| you | have citified |
| he;she;it | has citified |
| we | have citified |
| you | have citified |
| they | have citified |
Past
| I | citified |
| you | citified |
| he;she;it | citified |
| we | citified |
| you | citified |
| they | citified |
Pluperfect
| I | had citified |
| you | had citified |
| he;she;it | had citified |
| we | had citified |
| you | had citified |
| they | had citified |
Future
| I | will citify |
| you | will citify |
| he;she;it | will citify |
| we | will citify |
| you | will citify |
| they | will citify |
Future Perfect
| I | will have citified |
| you | will have citified |
| he;she;it | will have citified |
| we | will have citified |
| you | will have citified |
| they | will have citified |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | citify |
| you | citify |
| he;she;it | citify |
| we | citify |
| you | citify |
| they | citify |
Perfect
| I | have citified |
| you | have citified |
| he;she;it | have citified |
| we | have citified |
| you | have citified |
| they | have citified |
Imperfect
| I | citified |
| you | citified |
| he;she;it | citified |
| we | citified |
| you | citified |
| they | citified |
Pluperfect
| I | had citified |
| you | had citified |
| he;she;it | had citified |
| we | had citified |
| you | had citified |
| they | had citified |
Conditional
Present
| I | would citify |
| you | would citify |
| he;she;it | would citify |
| we | would citify |
| you | would citify |
| they | would citify |
Perfect
| I | would have citified |
| you | would have citified |
| he;she;it | would have citified |
| we | would have citified |
| you | would have citified |
| they | would have citified |
Imperative
| you | citify |
| we | Let's citify |
| you | citify |
Verbs conjugated like 'citify'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'citify'
cutify,
acetify,
acidify,
Britify,
certify,
codify,
cretify,
cuntify,
finify,
lithify,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From city + -fy.
Sample Sentences
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The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying" and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing." [1946, Harper's Magazine, volume 192:]
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The United States of America is not yet a jungle of metropolitan areas, but we are citifying at a very rapid pace. [1970, United States House Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, reports and prints of the House Committee on Appropriations:]
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My wife and I happened to have fought with authorities to address the extremely dangerous roads throughout this citifying rural community. [2010, Dr Dan Budenz, Analyzing Monsters - Family Cures: The Drew Peterson Saga, page 105:]
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Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers. [1975, Robert Lipsyte, Sportsworld: an American Dreamland:]
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In her role as a citifying presence, Athena often is associated with political structures, the administration of justice, and the arts of persuasion, such as rhetoric. [1989, David R. Kinsley, The Goddesses' Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and West:]
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"But these newcomers are citifying the rural atmosphere." They're also citifying prices. [1995, National Geographic Society, National Geographic, volume 187:]
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We may be clothed, citified, and civilized, but we carry deep within us the genetic patterns of behavior that served our ancestor, the "killer ape." [1992 July 17, Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 239:]
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In taking his gage from a prostitute in the London stews, he appropriates in a burlesque mode the faltering aristocratic rituals that Richard and his father try to manage. He citifies them, or reveals how they have already been invaded by city modes of violence and desire in the history world. [2005, John Michael Archer, Citizen Shakespeare: freemen and aliens in the language of the plays, page 97:]
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I reacted to my well-to-do peers, with the help of my roommate and best friend John, by sissifying and citifying them. [2007, Matthew Desmond, On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters:]