edify

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

(edifies, edifying, edified, edified) [V, VN] (formal) to improve people's minds or characters by teaching them about sth

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

edifyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus edifyEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary edifyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

Nearby in the dictionary

ed.Edam eddy Eden edge edgeways edging edgy edible edict edification edifice

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