unfructify

English

Etymology

un- +‎ fructify

Verb

unfructify (third-person singular simple present unfructifies, present participle unfructifying, simple past and past participle unfructified)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To make unfruitful.
    • 1649, Edmund William Ashbee, Occasional Fac-simile Reprints of Rare English Tracts, page 112:
      Their power is […] to […] unfructify Trees, parch and wither Grasse and Hearbes; bring scabs and diseases upon men, and murraine and rot upon Heards and Flockes […]
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