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NUTRIFY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nutrify mean? 

NUTRIFY (verb)
  The verb NUTRIFY has 1 sense:

1. give nourishment toplay

  Familiarity information: NUTRIFY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NUTRIFY (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they nutrify  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it nutrifies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: nutrified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: nutrified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: nutrifying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Give nourishment to

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

aliment; nourish; nutrify

Hypernyms (to "nutrify" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

nutrition ((physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance)


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