-ify
Turns nouns active
A suffix that turns nouns and adjectives into verbs meaning "to make or become": simplify, beautify, clarify, purify.
The pattern is productive—new formations appear regularly: Spotify, gamify, zombify.
The suffix often carries a slightly formal or technical tone: codify, quantify, exemplify.
Add game mechanics
- codifyOrganize into formal rules
- SpotifyMusic streaming platform
- ShopifyE-commerce website builder
- automateMake self-operating
pixelate · WiFi · virtualize · optimize
Convert to liquid state
- petrifyFossilize or paralyze utterly
- mummifyPreserve body with wrappings
- zombifyMake into walking dead
- calcifyHite calcium deposits form
ossify · fossilize · crystalize · vitrify · transmogrify · metamorphosize
Overwhelm mentally, bewilder
Make unattractive
Make an area wealthier
- yuppifyMake fashionably middle-class
- countrifyMake more rural
- AmericanizeAdapt to US culture
- classifyingSorting into types
gamify
Add game mechanics
automate · pixelate · WiFi · virtualize · optimize
liquefy
Convert to liquid state
- petrifyFossilize or paralyze utterly
- mummifyPreserve body with wrappings
- zombifyMake into walking dead
calcify · ossify · fossilize · crystalize · vitrify · transmogrify · metamorphosize
stupify
Overwhelm mentally, bewilder
uglify
Make unattractive
gentrify
Make an area wealthier
- yuppifyMake fashionably middle-class
- countrifyMake more rural
- AmericanizeAdapt to US culture
classifying · commodify · deify · reify