badify

English

Etymology

From bad +‎ -ify.

Verb

badify (third-person singular simple present badifies, present participle badifying, simple past and past participle badified)

1. (nonstandard) To make bad (in various senses).

   Near-synonym: worsify

   • 1999 April 6, Wolfram Schmied, “What is the "Optimal" Speel Limit?”, in sci.physics‎^[1] (Usenet):

     BTW, I can play this game, too. Combining México and the U.S. would tend to badify the record, wouldn't it?

   • 2006, Chris Gibbs, TJ Dawe, The Power of Ignorance, [Victoria, B.C.]: Brindle & Glass, →ISBN, page 155:

     Name three movies you remember having loved as a child or a teenager, but haven't seen since then. Now go out and rent them. ¶ Weren't they awful? Didn't you recognize certain elements from your memory of those movies, but weren't they somehow badified?

   • 2021, Scott Reintgen, Breaking Badlands (Talespinners; 3), New York, N.Y.: Crown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 63:

     Indira did her best to keep up the act. "Stole this hammer." She held it out. "I need it... badified."

Related terms

• badification