sicklify

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English

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Etymology

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From sickly +‎ -fy.

Verb

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sicklify (third-person singular simple present sicklifies, present participle sicklifying, simple past and past participle sicklified)

  1. (transitive, rare, dated, nonstandard) To make sickly or sickish
    • 1874, The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, volume 18, London, page 192:
      [] and sent forth as supposed good books, only to serve as trash, instead of bread, for Sunday-school children, and to sicklify and sentimentalize good girls; while they are the derision of all the stronger minded.