Usually means: To make black; blacken something.
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  2. nigrify: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nigrify: Vocabulary.com
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  5. nigrify: Wiktionary
  6. nigrify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  8. nigrify: Dictionary.com
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  10. nigrify: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ verb:  (transitive) To make black in colour; to blacken.

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melanize, blacken, black, negrify, negrofy, benegro, denigrate, blackify, overblacken, black up, more...

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melanize, blacken, black, negrify, negrofy, benegro, denigrate, blackify, overblacken, black up, more...



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