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PREACHIFY
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected form: preachified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they preachify ... he / she / it preachifies
Past simple: preachified
-ing form: preachifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
Example:
This man always sermonizes
Synonyms:
moralise; moralize; preachify; sermonise; sermonize
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "preachify" is one way to...):
advocate; preach (speak, plead, or argue in favor of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue preachify
Derivation:
preachification (moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner)