to pinkify

1 8.2

To make something light red in color

verb
/ˈpɪŋkɪfaɪ/

: pintar de rosa

She pinkified her old sneakers with a fresh coat of paint.

Examples

Some brands pinkify their products during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
She loves to pinkify her room.
The artist decided to pinkify the mural to brighten up the street.
The artist pinkified the canvas beautifully.
She decided to pinkify her bedroom by adding pink curtains and a pink bedspread.
The artist chose to pinkify the canvas by painting bright pink flowers all over it.
To celebrate spring, they planned to pinkify the garden with pink tulips and roses.

Antonyms

to bleach

30 3.2

To make something lighter in color, often using chemicals or sunlight

to decolorize

1 7.0

To take the color out of something like fabric or a photograph

How Pink

to pinkify

1 8.2

to tint

6 3.6

to tinge

19 4.8

Surface Forms

pinkify infinitive

pinkified past

pinkified past participle

pinkifying present participle

pinkifies third person singular

Morphology

pinkify = pink (transparent) = pink + ify

Formed by the adjective 'pink' plus the productive verb-forming suffix '-ify', meaning 'to make or become pink', which a B1 learner can derive.

Etymology

The word pinkify comes from pink and the ending -ify, where -ify means 'to make', as in beautify. So to pinkify something is to 'make it pink'.