passify

present singular third person passifies · participle present passifying · participle past passified · past passified

1. rareTo make or become passive.

   Finally, [the command] passify does not generate version-optimal programs; the notion of version-optimal passive form, which uses the [...]

   2016, Peter Thiemann, Programming Languages and Systems: 25th European Symposium, →ISBN

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   The distinction between the two voices, active and passive, is easy enough to make. The way you "passify" a verb is to start out with some form of the auxiliary "to be" and follow the auxiliary with the past participle of the verb.

   1983, Barry Tarshis, How to Write Like a Pro: A Guide to Effective Nonfiction Writing

   For non-passive systems, however, passivity-based control techniques cannot be used directly. One way of making nonpassive systems amenable to passivity-based control is to render such systems passive, i.e., to passify them[.]

   1997, 1997 American Control Conference, volume 1, of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →ISBN, page 2657

   A passive investor invests in the market portfolio as if he shared the average belief of the investors. [...] Every investor has the choice to “passify” if he discovers himself to be a loser of the zero sum game.

   2016, Thorsten Hens, Marc Oliver Rieger, Financial Economics: A Concise Introduction, →ISBN

   Synonyms: passivize