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LIQUEFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: liquefied   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become liquid or fluid when heated

Example:

the frozen fat liquefied

Synonyms:

flux; liquefy; liquify

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "liquefy" 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 "liquefy"):

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:

liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)

liquefiable (capable of being liquefied)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating

Example:

liquefy the silver

Synonyms:

liquefy; liquidise; liquidize; liquify

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "liquefy" 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:

liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)

liquefiable (capable of being liquefied)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become liquid

Example:

The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "liquefy" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

liquefaction (the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid)

liquefiable (capable of being liquefied)

Credits

 Context examples: 

This species is motile using a single polar flagella, non-spore forming, catalase positive, indole negative, does not reduce nitrate, liquefy gelatin, hydrolyze esculin or Tween 80, does not grow on O/F medium with D-glucose, nor fluoresce on King's B medium.

(Pandoraea pnomenusa, NCI Thesaurus)