resignify
English
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editresignify (third-person singular simple present resignifies, present participle resignifying, simple past and past participle resignified)
- (transitive) To give a new signification to.
- 2002, Kim M. Phillips, Barry Reay, Sexualities in history: a reader, page 428:
- Furthermore, sometimes leatherdykes resignify sexed bodily zones.