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VINIFY
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they vinify ... he / she / it vinifies
Past simple: vinified
Past participle: vinified
-ing form: vinifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Convert a juice into wine by fermentation
Example:
vinify grape juice
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "vinify" is one way to...):
ferment; work (cause to undergo fermentation)
Domain category:
wine making; winemaking (the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
vinification (the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine)
wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))
