ACIDIFY (acidified)

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Irregular inflected form: acidified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does acidify mean? 

• ACIDIFY (verb)
  The verb ACIDIFY has 2 senses:

1. make sour or more sour

2. turn acidic

  Familiarity information: ACIDIFY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACIDIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they acidify    ... he / she / it acidifies   
Past simple: acidified   
Past participle: acidified   
-ing form: acidifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make sour or more sour

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

acetify; acidify; acidulate; sour

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

change taste (alter the flavor of)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Turn acidic

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

acetify; acidify

Context example:

the solution acetified

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

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

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Antonym:

alkalize (turn basic and less acidic)

Derivation:

acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)

acidification (the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid)

 Context examples 

The type of drinking water that is planned to be provided to the subjects in a set (e.g., tap water, acidified, reverse osmosis, etc.).

(Drinking Water, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, not beta-hemolytic, oxidase, urease, ornithine decarboxylase, and indole negative, phosphatase positive, reduces nitrate, does not hydrolyze esculin or acidify galactose, and slowly and weakly ferments carbohydrates.

(Pasteurella bettyae, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists found that granite tombstones hosted microbes capable of acidifying their environment — then surviving those acidic conditions.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

A systemic and urinary acidifying salt.

(Ammonium Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Native fish hatchlings will find it more difficult to use sound to reach secure shelters in the oceans of the future that are acidified by carbon dioxide (CO2), threatening fish populations.

(Fish larvae lose their way to safety in acidified oceans, SciDev.Net)

Antibacterial clays can buffer wounds to a low (more acidic) pH, like other accepted chronic wound treatments, such as acidified nitrate.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

However, carbon dioxide dissolved into the ocean causes seawater to acidify, threatening the ability of shellfish and corals to build their skeletons, and affecting the health of other fish and marine species — many that are important to coastal economies and food security.

(Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil fuel emissions, NOAA)

These receptors are trafficked to an acidified endosomal compartment, wherein the ligand is dissociated and the receptor dephosphorylated by a GPCR-specific protein phosphatase PP2A isoform, and are subsequently recycled to the plasma membrane.

(GPCR Desensitization Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase, oxidase, gelatinase and urease positive, does not reduce nitrate, hydrolyze esculin, produce indole, or acidify glucose, but does produce a yellow pigment with a characteristic fruity odor, and is resistant to multiple antibiotics.

(Myroides odoratus, NCI Thesaurus)