rubify

[ roo-buh-fahy ]

/ ˈru bəˌfaɪ /

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verb (used with object), ru·bi·fied, ru·bi·fy·ing.

to make red; redden: a distant fire that rubified the sky.

RELATED WORDS

pink, tint, suffuse, mantle, color, rose, rouge, bloody, paint, rubric, flush, crimson, dye, rust, glow, ruddle, rubricate, incarnadine, ruddy, pinken

Nearby words

rubicon, rubicund, rubidium, rubidium-strontium dating, rubied, rubify, rubiginous, rubik cube, rubik's cube, rubin test, rubinstein

Origin of rubify

1350–1400; Middle English rubifien < Old French rubifier ≪ Latin rubefacere; see rubefacient, -ify

Related formsun·ru·bi·fied, adjective

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Examples from the Web for rubify

He had heard him indeed speak of 'rubify me' and 'minions,' but knew not what this meant.
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