dustify

present singular third person dustifies · participle present dustifying · participle past dustified · past dustified

1. ambitransitiveTo turn to dust.

   And to-morrow you shall take me out as early as you like and tramp me and freckle me and dustify me to your heart's content.

   1924, John Eyton, Expectancy, page 254

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   And so we artfully thrashed the poor fixture, in gratitude for happy hours, per ben fare (And did it ever dustify, and at the least we'll have to bathe this evening, worthy dictatrix!)

   1995, Arno Schmidt, Nobodaddy's Children, page 228

   Fossil hunters typically make their discoveries when they stumble across a clutter of dustifying fossil on the Earth's surface.

   2009, Hannah Holmes, The Secret Life of Dust