safetify

English

Etymology

safety +‎ -ify.

Verb

safetify (third-person singular simple present safetifies, present participle safetifying, simple past and past participle safetified) (rare, nonstandard)

1. To make safe, to add safety to.
   • 1916, “The Man is Dead! (Ad for Shur-Loc elevator safety)”, in The International Steam Engineer, page 65:

     If all life were appraised at the same value there would be a stampede of owners to safetify their shaftway doors, where 85% of all elevator fatalities occur.

   • 1920, “The Certified List of Elevator Killings in the Borough of Manhattan Alone, 1907 to 1915 inclusive”, in The Elevator Constructor, page 9:

     These cheap, electrical substitutes for real safety have not only failed to safetify, …

   • 2017 April 20, Brian Crane, Pickles‎^[1], retrieved 2018-04-21:

     I put a little rug over that slick area on the kitchen floor.
     That should safetify it. / "Safetify" it? Safetify isn't a word.
     Sure it is. I've heard it before. / It is NOT a word.
     Okay, fine! I'm not going to argufy with you.

Synonyms

• safeguard
• secure