verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To turn into gold. ambitransitive, rare

   "The alchemist's dream was ever to aurify base metal."

2. 2
   turn golden wordnet
3. 3
   transform into gold wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

begildgildjaundiceyellow

Example

More examples

"The alchemist's dream was ever to aurify base metal."

Etymology

From aur- + -ify.

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