carnify

Verb

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Verb (1)carnified

  1. become muscular or fleshyMore general change state, turn
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Car′ni·fy (kär′nĭ-fī), intransitive verb

Origin: LL. carnificare, fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh + facere to make: cf. F. carnifier.

To form flesh; to become like flesh. Sir Matt. Hale

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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