LIQUIFY (liquified)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: liquified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquify mean? 

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

1. make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating

2. become liquid or fluid when heated

  Familiarity information: LIQUIFY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they liquify    ... he / she / it liquifies   
Past simple: liquified   
Past participle: liquified   
-ing form: liquifying   

Sense 1

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 "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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become liquid or fluid when heated

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

flux; liquefy; liquify

Context example:

the frozen fat liquefied

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)

 Context examples 

The inside of the container often has a coating (as silvering) on the inside to reduce heat transfer, and is used especially for storing liquified gases or for experiments at low temperatures.

(Dewar, NCI Thesaurus)