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CHONDRIFY (chondrified)
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Irregular inflected form: chondrified
Dictionary entry overview: What does chondrify mean?
• CHONDRIFY (verb)
The verb CHONDRIFY has 1 sense:
1. turn into cartilage
Familiarity information: CHONDRIFY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they chondrify ... he / she / it chondrifies
Past simple: chondrified
Past participle: chondrified
-ing form: chondrifying
... he / she / it chondrifies Past simple: chondrified
Past participle: chondrified
-ing form: chondrifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn into cartilage
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The tissue chondrifies
Hypernyms (to "chondrify" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
chondrin (a substance that resembles gelatin and is obtained by boiling cartilage in water)
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