safetify
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[edit]safetify (third-person singular simple present safetifies, present participle safetifying, simple past and past participle safetified) (rare, nonstandard)
- To make safe, to add safety to.
- 1916, “The Man is Dead! (Ad for Shur-Loc elevator safety)”, in The International Steam Engineer, page 65:
- If all life were appraised at the same value there would be a stampede of owners to safetify their shaftway doors, where 85% of all elevator fatalities occur.
- 1920, “The Certified List of Elevator Killings in the Borough of Manhattan Alone, 1907 to 1915 inclusive”, in The Elevator Constructor, page 9:
- These cheap, electrical substitutes for real safety have not only failed to safetify, …
- 2017 April 20, Brian Crane, Pickles[1], retrieved 2018-04-21:
- I put a little rug over that slick area on the kitchen floor.
That should safetify it. / "Safetify" it? Safetify isn't a word.
Sure it is. I've heard it before. / It is NOT a word.
Okay, fine! I'm not going to argufy with you.