Profundify

//pɹəˈfʌndɪfaɪ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated. humorous, often

    "But where's the use of invoking the Muses, when they are provoked by droppings of inspiration from a stone, in which the measure and the meaning are most happily profundified?"

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"But where's the use of invoking the Muses, when they are provoked by droppings of inspiration from a stone, in which the measure and the meaning are most happily profundified?"

Etymology

Latin profundus (“profound”) + -ify. Post-19th-century uses popularized by American humorist James Boren (1925–2010).

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