citify

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citify

verb citifies · citifying · citified · cityfy

informal, intransitive To become more like or more in the character of a city. The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or "citifying" and the outer bark expanding or "urbanizing."
slang, transitive To make more like or more in the character of a city. Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers.
informal, transitive To make more like a city person. We may be clothed, citified, and civilized, but we carry deep within us the genetic patterns of behavior that served our ancestor, the "killer ape."

Similar: urbanize · Opposite: countrify

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Similar: urbanize · Opposite: countrify

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@misc{citify_2026,
  title = {citify},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/citify},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}