suffix [in verbs]also-fy
[Language: Old French;Origin: -ifier, from Latin -ificare, from -ficare; -FY]
to make something be in a particular state or condition
　to purify (=make or become pure)
　to clarify the situation (=make it clear)
to fill someone with a particular feeling
　Spiders terrify me (=make me very afraid) .
informal to do something in a silly or annoying way
　to speechify (=make speeches, using important sounding words)
to make something or someone be like or typical of a person or group
　Frenchified (=like the French)