-ify

-ify

variant of -fy after a consonant: intensify.

Origin:
Middle English -ifien < Middle French -ifier < Latin -ificāre, equivalent to -i- -i- + -ficāre -fy

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-ify
 
suffix forming verbs
a variant of -fy : intensify
 
-ification
 
suffix forming nouns

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-ify is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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