passify

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæsɪfaɪ/, /ˈpæsəfaɪ/

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• Homophone: pacify

passify (third-person singular simple present passifies, present participle passifying, simple past and past participle passified)

1. (rare) To make or become passive.

   Synonym: passivize (more common)

   • 1983, Barry Tarshis, How to Write Like a Pro: A Guide to Effective Nonfiction Writing:

     The distinction between the two voices, active and passive, is easy enough to make. The way you "passify" a verb is to start out with some form of the auxiliary "to be" and follow the auxiliary with the past participle of the verb.

   • 1997, 1997 American Control Conference, volume 1, of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →ISBN, page 2657:

     For non-passive systems, however, passivity-based control techniques cannot be used directly. One way of making nonpassive systems amenable to passivity-based control is to render such systems passive, i.e., to passify them[.]

   • 2016, Peter Thiemann, Programming Languages and Systems: 25th European Symposium, →ISBN:

     Finally, [the command] passify does not generate version-optimal programs; the notion of version-optimal passive form, which uses the [...]

   • 2016, Thorsten Hens, Marc Oliver Rieger, Financial Economics: A Concise Introduction, →ISBN:

     A passive investor invests in the market portfolio as if he shared the average belief of the investors. [...] Every investor has the choice to “passify” if he discovers himself to be a loser of the zero sum game.