safetify
verbEtymology From safety + -ify.
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Nonstandard, Rare To make safe, to add safety to.
- 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.1916, “The Man is Dead! (Ad for Shur-Loc elevator safety)”, in The International Steam Engineer, page 65:
- These cheap, electrical substitutes for real safety have not only failed to safetify, …1920, “The Certified List of Elevator Killings in the Borough of Manhattan Alone, 1907 to 1915 inclusive”, in The Elevator Constructor, page 9:
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- 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.2017 April 20, Brian Crane, Pickles, retrieved 21 Apr 2018: