dustify

English

Etymology

From dust +‎ -ify.

Verb

dustify (third-person singular simple present dustifies, present participle dustifying, simple past and past participle dustified)

  1. (ambitransitive) To turn to dust.
    • 1924, John Eyton, Expectancy, page 254:
      And to-morrow you shall take me out as early as you like and tramp me and freckle me and dustify me to your heart's content.
    • 1995, Arno Schmidt, Nobodaddy's Children, page 228:
      And so we artfully thrashed the poor fixture, in gratitude for happy hours, per ben fare (And did it ever dustify, and at the least we'll have to bathe this evening, worthy dictatrix!)
    • 2009, Hannah Holmes, The Secret Life of Dust:
      Fossil hunters typically make their discoveries when they stumble across a clutter of dustifying fossil on the Earth's surface.
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