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PRONUNCIATION OF DANDIFY

dandify  [ˈdændɪˌfaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DANDIFY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dandify is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dandify in English.

WHAT DOES DANDIFY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dandify in the English dictionary

The definition of dandify in the dictionary is to dress like or cause to resemble a dandy.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DANDIFY

PRESENT

Present
I dandify
you dandify
he/she/it dandifies
we dandify
you dandify
they dandify
Present continuous
I am dandifying
you are dandifying
he/she/it is dandifying
we are dandifying
you are dandifying
they are dandifying
Present perfect
I have dandified
you have dandified
he/she/it has dandified
we have dandified
you have dandified
they have dandified
Present perfect continuous
I have been dandifying
you have been dandifying
he/she/it has been dandifying
we have been dandifying
you have been dandifying
they have been dandifying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dandified
you dandified
he/she/it dandified
we dandified
you dandified
they dandified
Past continuous
I was dandifying
you were dandifying
he/she/it was dandifying
we were dandifying
you were dandifying
they were dandifying
Past perfect
I had dandified
you had dandified
he/she/it had dandified
we had dandified
you had dandified
they had dandified
Past perfect continuous
I had been dandifying
you had been dandifying
he/she/it had been dandifying
we had been dandifying
you had been dandifying
they had been dandifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will dandify
you will dandify
he/she/it will dandify
we will dandify
you will dandify
they will dandify
Future continuous
I will be dandifying
you will be dandifying
he/she/it will be dandifying
we will be dandifying
you will be dandifying
they will be dandifying
Future perfect
I will have dandified
you will have dandified
he/she/it will have dandified
we will have dandified
you will have dandified
they will have dandified
Future perfect continuous
I will have been dandifying
you will have been dandifying
he/she/it will have been dandifying
we will have been dandifying
you will have been dandifying
they will have been dandifying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would dandify
you would dandify
he/she/it would dandify
we would dandify
you would dandify
they would dandify
Conditional continuous
I would be dandifying
you would be dandifying
he/she/it would be dandifying
we would be dandifying
you would be dandifying
they would be dandifying
Conditional perfect
I would have dandify
you would have dandify
he/she/it would have dandify
we would have dandify
you would have dandify
they would have dandify
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been dandifying
you would have been dandifying
he/she/it would have been dandifying
we would have been dandifying
you would have been dandifying
they would have been dandifying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you dandify
we let´s dandify
you dandify
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to dandify
Past participle
dandified
Present Participle
dandifying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DANDIFY


acidify
əˈsɪdɪˌfaɪ
codify
ˈkəʊdɪˌfaɪ
commodify
kəˈmɒdɪˌfaɪ
deacidify
ˌdiːəˈsɪdɪˌfaɪ
dehumidify
ˌdiːhjuːˈmɪdɪˌfaɪ
edify
ˈɛdɪˌfaɪ
humidify
hjuːˈmɪdɪˌfaɪ
ladyfy
ˈleɪdɪˌfaɪ
lapidify
ləˈpɪdɪˌfaɪ
madefy
ˈmædɪˌfaɪ
modify
ˈmɒdɪˌfaɪ
mundify
ˈmʌndɪˌfaɪ
nidify
ˈnɪdɪˌfaɪ
recodify
riːˈkəʊdɪˌfaɪ
reedify
riːˈedɪˌfaɪ
remodify
riːˈmɒdɪˌfaɪ
resolidify
ˌriːsəˈlɪdɪˌfaɪ
rigidify
rɪˈdʒɪdɪˌfaɪ
solidify
səˈlɪdɪˌfaɪ
trendify
ˈtrɛndɪˌfaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DANDIFY

dander
dandiacal
Dandie Dinmont
Dandie Dinmont terrier
dandier
dandies
dandiest
dandification
dandified
dandifies
dandily
dandiprat
dandle
dandler
Dandolo
Dandong
dandriff
dandruff
dandruff shampoo
dandruffy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DANDIFY

amplify
certify
clarify
classify
fluidify
identify
indemnify
justify
magnify
notify
premodify
qualify
quantify
rectify
signify
simplify
specify
testify
unify
verify

Synonyms and antonyms of dandify in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dandify» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DANDIFY

Find out the translation of dandify to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dandify from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dandify» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

dandify
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dandify
570 millions of speakers

English

dandify
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dandify
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

dandify
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

dandify
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dandify
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চট্পটে করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dandify
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dandify
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dandify
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dandify
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dandify
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dandify
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ăn mặc đúng mốt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dandify
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डंडेमेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dandify
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vestire con eleganza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dandify
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dandify
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dandify
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

dandify
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opschikken
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dandify
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dandify
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dandify

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DANDIFY»

The term «dandify» is used very little and occupies the 178.095 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DANDIFY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dandify

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DANDIFY»

Discover the use of dandify in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dandify and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
The act or state of making look or looking like a DANDY: coll, 1825 +. Ex: dandify . To make resemble, give the style of, a DANDY: coll; from ca 1820. Whence the ppl adj. dandified. dandi. , see DANDY, 5. dandiprat; occ. dandyprat(t) . A person  ...
Eric Partridge, 2003
2
The American Whig Review
... as these: Devilet, Fiddle-faddlen, because the Quarterly Review was so silly as to make it possible for Mr. Worcester to add two towards his 27,000. Then we have To Facsimile, Rumgumlious, Circumbendr'but, Canton/serous, Dandify, ...
3
Rural amusements for school-boys during the holidays
Perhaps, therefore, I began to dandify a little. Mv black hair would curl ; and Thirza laughed when she caught me, one morning, adjusting the said curls before the old tilted glass over the mantelpiece. Mr. Smirk, too, had a quick eye for any little ...
Rural amusements, 1848
4
Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism
In describing his style he says, “Combine pure fantasy with twists on ancient mythology, and sprinkle lightly with drag queens, and you get an idea of how I dandify.” Here Powell models two different looks: a black hat trimmed with black and ...
Katherine Gleason, 2013
5
The Yellow Briar: A Story of the Irish on the Canadian ...
His purpose in coming with me, I found, was to dandify himself up for an effective stage entrance at the house. Off came the fur cap, and on he clapped a high silk plug much affected by the young Irish gentry of those days.The smart young man  ...
Patrick Slater, 2009
6
The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a ...
... of the body;and to make oneself into a work of art (as Nietzsche and, following him, Michel Foucault sug- gest) is not simply to aestheticize life, to dandify it, or to make oneself into an object or spectacle for the artistic investigations of others.
Marquard Smith, Joanne Morra, 2006
7
Travels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hanover, Germany, ...
It contributes much to the rapidity of growth; and no attempt is made, like those of other nations, to screw or dandify diem, if I may so call it, into any state, with the absurd idea of improving the shape, and thus obstruct the grand organs of life; ...
William Rae Wilson, 1826
8
Handbook of Word-Formation
Plag uses Optimality Theory to prioritize the various factors y which influence the form of the finished words, and shows that basically -ify and -ize are in complementary distribution. Where they are not (e.g. in dandyize or dandify) it is because ...
Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber, 2006
9
Schirmer's Complete Rhyming Dictionary
damnify damselfly dandify decalcify declassify decry deerfly defy dehumidify deify deny detoxify die dignify disqualify dissatisfy diversify dragonfly dry dy dye edify electrify emulsify espy esterify exemplify eye falsify fbi firefly fisheye fly flyby foci ...
Paul Zollo, 2010
10
Model Theoretic Methods in Finite Combinatorics: AMS-ASL ...
Observe that if y is any element in Nisuch that y∧d≤ a, then y∧a=y∧dandify∧d ≥ dthen y∧a= a. So setting N0i+1 = Ni ∪ {a} we satisfy the inductive hypothesis. Second, fix some b ∈ M such that b>d. By Remark 4.1 we can choose b such ...
Martin Grohe, Johann A. Makowsky, 2011

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DANDIFY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dandify is used in the context of the following news items.
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Junot Diaz, Jonathan Lethem, Art Spiegelman join protest against …
A world of things that do not google,” Panter said. “Please do not dandify or cripple this incredible resource.” Library officials say that rather than ... «New York Daily News, Mar 14»
2
Wondai preparation for Gympie Cup hopes
Bred in the purple, Dandify is a daughter of Caulfied Cup winner Mannerism who has produced eight winners from 11 named foals. «Gympie Times, Oct 13»
3
Makybe Diva to breed with Black Caviar's brother All Too Hard
MacCallum Inglis is the selling agent of the iconic stud has been birthplace of outstanding gallopers like Eremein, Yippio, Iglesia, Dandify, La ... «Herald Sun, Aug 13»
4
Tennis Dandy
With an echo of the old school gent, this is a modern take on tailoring. It's all about maxing the accessories to dandify the off beat separates as a ... «Trendstop, Apr 12»
5
How to: archive and back up photos
... scimiterpod dandify irreducibleness magnetooptics deemphasizes electrodeposition nonappendent anomalipod ensigning citriculture popply ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
6
Sebago Patent Dockside Shoes
Patent leather can be a challenging material to pull off– it can over-dandify a smart outfit if you're not careful, and it can be hard to keep up if ... «Style Crave, Feb 10»
7
Russian Fashion Comes In From the Cold
Titled "Gop-Stop" -- which can only be translated as "bang-bang" -- the provocative spoof offered instructions on how to dandify the Russian ... «Washington Post, Feb 07»

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