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ETHERIFY
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Irregular inflected form: etherified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they etherify ... he / she / it etherifies
Past simple: etherified
Past participle: etherified
-ing form: etherifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Change into an ether
Example:
etherify an alcohol
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "etherify" 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:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
ether (a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic)
