nonsensify

present singular third person nonsensifies · participle present nonsensifying · participle past nonsensified · past nonsensified

1. intransitiveraretransitiveTo treat as, transform into, or create nonsense, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

   But Swift will have none of this. He nonsensifies Collins.

   2001, Phillip Harth et al., Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, →ISBN, page 84

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   Turnbull again obscures and nonsensifies by misprinting "works" for "words."

   1872, A. B. Grossart, ed., The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, Printed for private collection, "St. Peter's Complaint," p. 51 (note for stanza 65, line 2)

   The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality.

   1949, Wilson Library Bulletin,, volume 24, page 241

   The Dutchman, taking the 16th stage of the Tour de France after a solo effort which nonsensified all known laws of human endurance, smiled.

   2002, Alun Rees, "Golf: Maruyama outshone," Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), 27 Jul.