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to aurify

to aurify

9.9
To make something look golden
  • verb
  • /ˈɔːrəˌfaɪ/
translation icon : dorar
  • The setting sun seemed to aurify the clouds with a brilliant golden light.

Examples

  • Artists often attempt to aurify everyday objects in their work, giving them a luminous, precious quality.

  • The artist aurifies her paintings with golden hues.

  • The poet described how autumn leaves aurify the landscape each year.

  • They decided to aurify the walls of the old chapel.

  • The setting sun seemed to aurify the clouds with a brilliant golden light.

  • Artists often attempt to aurify everyday objects in their work, giving them a luminous, precious quality.

  • The poet described how autumn leaves aurify the landscape each year.

Synonyms

to gild
vsto aurify
5 7.0

Cover an object with a thin layer of gold or metal that looks like gold

makes items golden in color rather than forming a thin gold coating
to begild
vsto aurify
  • Archaic
9.9

To put thin gold or gold leaf on something

makes things golden in color or appearance rather than laying metal
to engild
vsto aurify
  • Archaic
9.9

To cover something with gold or thin gold leaf

makes things golden in color or appearance instead of applying metal

How Golden

to gild
5 7.0
to aurify
9.9
to stain
113 3.2
to tint
24 3.6

Surface Forms

aurify infinitive
aurified past
aurified past participle
aurifying present participle
aurifies third person singular

Morphology

aurify = auric (semi-transparent) = aur + ify

Formed by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ify' to the gold-related combining form 'aur-', but 'aur-' is not a standalone, familiar English base to average learners.

Etymology

Aurify comes from the Latin word aurum meaning 'gold' and the suffix -ify meaning 'to make'. So to aurify something is to 'make it golden' or give it a gold look.