nigrify

English

Verb

nigrify (third-person singular simple present nigrifies, present participle nigrifying, simple past and past participle nigrified)

  1. (transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken.
    • 1868, Ballou's Monthly Magazine, volumes 27-28, page 97:
      An adventurous London journalist, who is going to Abyssinia in advance of the expedition, tried to nigrify himself recently with tincture of iodine.
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