flaccify
English
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[edit]flaccify (third-person singular simple present flaccifies, present participle flaccifying, simple past and past participle flaccified)
- (transitive, rare) To render flaccid.
- 1870, George Robert Gleig, The Harrises, an Extract from the Common-Place Book of Alexander Smith, the Elder, page 245:
- The reverend gentleman got into his gig with a slight effort, for it was high-hung, and at fifty men are not, for the most part, so lithe as they once were, especially if good living and an orderly or rather somnolent course of existence have increased their bulk, and somewhat flaccified their muscles.
- 1873 September 27, “Dyspepsia or Infigestion”, in Medical Notes and Queries, volume 1, page 216:
- Some lead lives of sedentariness and sluggishness, sleep away their brains and flaccify their tissues, others vie with the athletes and aspire to emulate the sculpture models of the ancients, but are disappointed when it is too late.
- 1996, Jeff Keshen, Propaganda and Censorship During Canada's Great War, →ISBN, page 133:
- Many who sought escape from an overly-regulated, mechanized and flaccifying homefront environment, discovered a military life that carried far more potential for repression than any previous civilian job; a conflict where elan paled in importance to battlefield technology; clashes during which the exalted male physique was often literally ripped to shreds; and artillery duels that frequently prompted the most muscilar into releasing so-called weak emotions bottled up since childhood.