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LIQUIDIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does liquidize mean?
• LIQUIDIZE (verb)
The verb LIQUIDIZE has 2 senses:
1. sell or get rid of all one's merchandise
2. make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating
Familiarity information: LIQUIDIZE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |




Past simple: liquidized


Past participle: liquidized


-ing form: liquidizing


Sense 1
Meaning:
Sell or get rid of all one's merchandise
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "liquidize" is one way to...):
cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out (throw or cast away)
"Liquidize" entails doing...:
sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)
Domain category:
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
liquefy; liquidise; liquidize; liquify
Context example:
liquefy the silver
Hypernyms (to "liquidize" 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:
liquidizer (an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods)
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