Oddify
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To cause to appear strange.
"And since, as I suggested at the beginning of this essay, all people are alike in being somewhat odd, and since all writers are alike in being similarly oddified in their work, it may be that many children's writers will agree that their own reasons for doing what they do are not very dissimilar from mine."
- 2 To make odd (not even).
"The inverse quantized coefficients are oddified following the MPEG-1 (and H.261) method."
Example
More examples"And since, as I suggested at the beginning of this essay, all people are alike in being somewhat odd, and since all writers are alike in being similarly oddified in their work, it may be that many children's writers will agree that their own reasons for doing what they do are not very dissimilar from mine."
Etymology
From odd + -ify.
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