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LIQUIFY
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Irregular inflected form: liquified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they liquify ... he / she / it liquifies
Past simple: liquified
Past participle: liquified
-ing form: liquifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become liquid or fluid when heated
Example:
the frozen fat liquefied
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "liquify" is one way to...):
change integrity (change in physical make-up)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "liquify"):
condense; distil; distill (undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops)
dethaw; dissolve; melt; thaw; unfreeze; unthaw (become or cause to become soft or liquid)
fuse (become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
liquid (the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility)
liquid (fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume)
liquifiable (capable of being liquefied)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating
Example:
liquefy the silver
Synonyms:
liquefy; liquidise; liquidize; liquify
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "liquify" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
liquid (the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility)
liquid (fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume)
liquifiable (capable of being liquefied)
