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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (intransitive, informal) To become more like or more in the character of a city.
- (transitive, slang) To make more like or more in the character of a city.
- (transitive, informal) To make more like a city person.
Esimerkit
- The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying" and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing."
- The United States of America is not yet a jungle of metropolitan areas, but we are citifying at a very rapid pace.
- My wife and I happened to have fought with authorities to address the extremely dangerous roads throughout this citifying rural community.
- Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers.
- In her role as a citifying presence, Athena often is associated with political structures, the administration of justice, and the arts of persuasion, such as rhetoric.
- "But these newcomers are citifying the rural atmosphere." They're also citifying prices.
- In taking his gage from a prostitute in the London stews, he appropriates in a burlesque mode the faltering aristocratic rituals that Richard and his father try to manage. He citifies them, or reveals how they have already been invaded by city modes of violence and desire in the history world.
- I reacted to my well-to-do peers, with the help of my roommate and best friend John, by sissifying and citifying them.
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