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DECREPITATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

To roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops

Example:

decrepitate salts

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

decrepitate (undergo decrepitation and crackle)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

decrepitation (the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Undergo decrepitation and crackle

Example:

The salt decrepitated

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

decrepitate (to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

decrepitation (the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated)

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