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GENTRIFY
Definition of GENTRIFY
verb
To renovate or improve something (especially housing or district), making it more appealing to the middle classes (now often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).
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Other senses
GENTRIFY carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To subject to gentrification.
“gentrify a row of Victorian houses.”
intransitive verb
To undergo gentrification.
“a neighborhood that is rapidly gentrifying.”
verb
to renovate something, especially housing, to make it more appealing to the middle classes
verb
renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations
“gentrify the old center of town”
Where it comes from
From gentry + -fy.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, GENTRIFY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GENTRIFY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 54 boards so far. 188 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GENTRIFY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read EFGINRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start GENTRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
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