nigrify

nigrify
nigrification, n.
/nig"reuh fuy'/, v.t., nigrified, nigrifying.
to blacken.
[1650-60; < L nigrificare to make black, blacken, equiv. to nigr- (s. of niger) black + -i- -I- + -ficare -FY]

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