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DEVITRIFY
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Irregular inflected form: devitrified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they devitrify ... he / she / it devitrifies
Past simple: devitrified
Past participle: devitrified
-ing form: devitrifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "devitrify" is one way to...):
embrittle (make brittle)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Become crystalline
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "devitrify" is one way to...):
crystalise; crystalize; crystallize; effloresce (assume crystalline form; become crystallized)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
