Nigrify

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make black in colour; to blacken. transitive

    "An adventurous London journalist, who is going to Abyssinia in advance of the expedition, tried to nigrify himself recently with tincture of iodine."

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besmirchblackenblackenblotblotchcork

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"An adventurous London journalist, who is going to Abyssinia in advance of the expedition, tried to nigrify himself recently with tincture of iodine."

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