Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To add nutrients to; provide with nutrients or nutrition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To nourish; be nutritious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To give nutrients to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give nourishment to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One group of "nutritionists" at Rutgers received a quarter of a million dollars from USDA a few years ago to "nutrify" Hostess Twinkies and related products, and has just written an article in Food Technology exploring the "nutrification" of the prepared frozen meals offered to center city children free by the National School Lunch Program.
The Twinkies Menace Willett, Roslyn 1974
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They did not eat to nutrify their bodies, these feasters in the banqueting-hall of the royal pyramid, but they all ate to cloy themselves, and they strutted forth new usages with every platter and bowl that the slaves brought.
The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905
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Peter Stevens-Guille, Mississauga, Ont. A loonie doesn't nutrify
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Seems lak you kin nutrify yo'se'f wid whuteveh vittles is laying 'round. "
Lady Luck Hugh Wiley
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