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单词 tepefy
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tepefyv.

/ˈtɛpɪfʌɪ/
Forms: Also tepify.
Etymology: < Latin tepefacĕre to make tepid, < tepēre to be lukewarm: see -fy suffix.
1. transitive. To make tepid or moderately warm; to warm.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tepefie.., to make warme.
1745 J. G. Cooper Power Harmony i. 17 The flood of life, Loos'd at its source by tepefying strains.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 346 Except..the shallows at the edges of the stream become tepified by the..rays of the sun.
2. intransitive. To become tepid.
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1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tepefy, v. i. To become moderately warm.
1866 J. B. Rose tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics 129 As vital humours tepify.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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