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Usage

• transmogrify

  If something is transmogrified, its form or shape is changed completely, especially in a funny or exaggerated way.

• indemnify

  If you indemnify someone against something bad happening, you promise to protect them from financial loss or legal responsibility if it happens.

• vilify

  If you vilify people, you write or say bad things about them in an attempt to make them unpopular.

• ossify

  If a belief, idea, system, or organization ossifies, it becomes fixed and unwilling to change.

• deify

  If someone is deified, they have been either made into a god or are adored like one.

• mollify

  If you mollify someone, you say or do something to make that person feel less angry or upset.

• stultify

  When you are stultified by something, you lose interest in it because it is dull, boring, or time-consuming.

• exemplify

  One thing that exemplifies another serves as an example of it, illustrates it, or demonstrates it.

• nullify

  To nullify something is to cancel or negate it.

• personify

  When you personify something, such as a quality, you are the perfect example of it.

• rectify

  When you rectify something, you correct it or make it right once more.

• qualified

  A qualified statement has been limited, restricted, or changed in some way.

• qualify

  When you qualify for something, such as a club or job, you are right for it because you have the skill or knowledge that matches its needs.

• identify

  To identify something is to point it out or name it.

• simplify

  When you simplify something, you make it easier or not so hard to understand.

• amplify

  increase in size, volume or significance

• certify

  provide evidence for

• disqualify

  make unfit or unsuitable

• dissatisfy

  fail to satisfy

• diversify

  make (more) diverse

• edify

  make understand

• justify

  show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for

• magnify

  increase in size, volume or significance

• modify

  make less severe or harsh or extreme

• notify

  inform (somebody) of something

• pacify

  cause to be more favorably inclined

• petrify

  cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned

• purify

  remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation

• quantify

  use as a quantifier

• revivify

  give new life or energy to

• scarify

  puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals

• signify

  denote or connote

• solidify

  make solid or more solid

• specify

  specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement

• stratify

  divide society into social classes or castes

• terrify

  fill with terror

• testify

  give testimony in a court of law

• typify

  embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of

• unify

  become one

• verify

  confirm the truth of

• vivify

  give new life or energy to