Meanings
verbunfructify (third-person singular simple present unfructifies, present participle unfructifying, simple past and past participle unfructified)
present singular third person unfructifies · participle present unfructifying · participle past unfructified · past unfructified
- obsoletetransitiveTo make unfruitful.
Their power is […] to […] unfructify Trees, parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes; bring scabs and diseases upon men, and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes […]
1649, Edmund William Ashbee, Occasional Fac-simile Reprints of Rare English Tracts, page 112
Origin
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unfructify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfructify
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“unfructify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unfructify. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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