rubify
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[edit]rubify (third-person singular simple present rubifies, present participle rubifying, simple past and past participle rubified)
- (rare, transitive) to make red; to cause to redden
- (rare, intransitive) to redden; to become red
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- waters rubifying
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