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say it: JEN-tri-fahy
gentrify is a verb meaning "renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations". It carries one recorded sense.
renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations
“gentrify a row of old houses”
“gentrify the old center of town”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gentrify come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.