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FANCIFY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fancify mean?
• FANCIFY (verb)
The verb FANCIFY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: FANCIFY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make more beautiful
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify
Hypernyms (to "fancify" is one way to...):
ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fancify"):
groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)
curry; dress; groom (give a neat appearance to)
dress up; window-dress (make something appear superficially attractive)
slick up; smarten up; spiff up; spruce; spruce up; titivate; tittivate (make neat, smart, or trim)
polish; shine; smooth; smoothen (make (a surface) shine)
become; suit (enhance the appearance of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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