rubify

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verb

to make red; to cause to redden

OriginFrench rubéfier →
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Meanings

verbrubify (third-person singular simple present rubifies, present participle rubifying, simple past and past participle rubified)

present singular third person rubifies · participle present rubifying · participle past rubified · past rubified · alternative rubefy

  1. raretransitiveto make red; to cause to redden
  2. intransitiverareto redden; to become red

    waters rubifying

    1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Frenchrubéfier
  2. Englishrubify

From French rubéfier.

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APA

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MLA

“rubify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rubify. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rubify,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rubify.

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