Crossword clues for liquefy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liquefy \Liq"ue*fy\ (l[i^]k"w[-e]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquefied (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquefying (-f[imac]`[i^]ng).] [F. liqu['e]fier, L. liquere to be liquid + facere, -ficare (in comp.), to make. See Liquid, and -fy.]
To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat. [WordNet sense 1]
To convert from a gaseous form into a liquid; as, to liquefy natural gas.
Liquefy \Liq"ue*fy\, v. i. To become liquid. [WordNet sense 2]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French liquefier "liquefy, dissolve," from Latin liquefacere "make liquid, melt," from liquere "be fluid" (see liquid (adj.)) + facere "to make" (see factitious).
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context physics chemistry English) To make into a liquid, either by condense a gas or by melting a solid. 2 (context cooking English) To make into a liquid by mashing, such as by using a blender. vb. 1 (context physics chemistry English) To make into a liquid, either by condense a gas or by melting a solid. 2 (context cooking English) To make into a liquid by mashing, such as by using a blender.
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Usage examples of "liquefy".
The glands which had remained in contact for two or three days with the viscid masses were not discoloured, and apparently had absorbed little of the liquefied tissue, or had been little affected by it.
Liquefied varieties of cyanic were quick, and there were other preparations.
Cyrus Harding feared above all lest the liquefied matter should overflow the shore, for in that event the dockyard could not escape.
Maybe it had been aiming at a Meanie, but the shot, the tongue of liquefied stone, hit the end of a mainmast yard.
The liquefied substances soon after reached the bottom of the barrier.
Under the combined action of bacteria and the digestive juices disgorged by the larvae, the corpse begins to liquefy and becomes a ferment of butyric and ammoniac reactions.
Behind it, the Quizzer flared up briefly in a shower of hissing sparks, collapsed, liquefied, and fused again into metallic formlessness.
One of the liquids is liquefied oxygen, and liquid oxygen cannot be regarded as a storable fuel, at least not in the sense in which powder is storable.
Instead of weak squares and backward pawns all he saw when he looked at the board was the white-hot flare of a thermic lance liquefying all that steel and concrete over his head.
But as he swished his hand through the cloud to clear the water, Laquatas noticed that the black ink covering the map was liquefying from the heat and lifting off the velum, showing details underneath the inkblot.
The remains of cities are to be found there which must be most extensive and they are burnt out and vitrified in part, full of fused stones and craters caused by fires which were hot enough to liquefy any rock or metal.
Quarren go black all over, then their autoimmune system goes insane and liquefies their bones.
The red glare of the vortex of those beams was lightened momentarily by a flash of brighter color, and through the foggy atmosphere there may have flamed briefly a drop or two of metal that was only liquefied.
The total weight came to around fifty pounds of Biohazard Level 4 liquefying primate.
The marrow of the donor is liquefied and mixed with the blood of the bloodroot, and that mix is put into the body of the recipient, and finds its own way into the bone.