Dismalize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make dismal.

    "And glancing through the pages of the “Lowell Offering” a year or two later, I see that I continued to dismalize myself at times, quite unnecessarily."

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"And glancing through the pages of the “Lowell Offering” a year or two later, I see that I continued to dismalize myself at times, quite unnecessarily."

Etymology

From dismal + -ize.

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