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AERIFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: aerified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn into gas

Example:

The substance gasified

Synonyms:

aerify; gasify; vaporise; vaporize

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "aerify" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "aerify"):

sublimate; sublime (change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

air (a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of)

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