oldify
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He is become very tottering & oldified & Souk now beats him in bodily strength."
- "Mickleover has a good timber-framed house tucked away behind a still rural-looking village square, and Chellaston, besides some buildings on the main street and one old pub that has been modernised and re-oldified, has the memory of its former importance in the alabaster industry."
- "It is written in a vaguely oldified English - the sort of language an upmarket Hollywood hack might imagine them speaking at a jousting tournament circa 1180."
- "He cared more about history, and had vast projects for preserving, beautifying and “oldifying" the city."
- "In the following example, I'm going to show you how to “oldify” an image by giving it a sepia tint and adding some noise to it to make it seem a bit less crisp."
- "Me and Dad would go to auctions and buy bits and bobs, then we'd oldify them — a sup of tea on a map, an ancient frame on a new picture."
Etymology
From old + -ify.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: old