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liquify

liquify \liquify\ v. t. & i. 1. Same as liquefy.

Syn: Syn.
--, make liquid, liquidize, liquidise, make fluid.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liquify

alternative spelling of liquefy.

Wiktionary
liquify

alt. To make liquid. vb. To make liquid.

WordNet
liquify
  1. v. make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver" [syn: liquefy, liquidize, liquidise]

  2. become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied" [syn: liquefy, flux]

  3. [also: liquified]

Usage examples of "liquify".

As it began to liquify and evaporate, she watched Woody inhale 293 t the smoke from a rolled up straw he held in his mouth.

Ink whose materials have been liquified by the agency of an acid is erased with great difficulty.

A phymech absorbed one half pint of liquified radiol every three years, and an occasional lubrication, to insure proper functioning.

Beneath the seeming solidity of the ground, a tumult of liquified stone seethed and boiled.

So she waits until the body is practically liquified, which makes fixing the date of death impossible, and calls us.

Everything in side her felt liquified, ignited and melted, by his hands and her heart and his holding her.

Family employed a similar one, prepared by heating great, reeking gobs of animal fat until it liquified, then filtering the substance through dried grasses or reeds until you refined the pure tallow.

Tabini continued, as nerve and flesh all but liquified in relief and bodyguards stood down from red alert.

But I do remember him saying that given the fact vampires spend half their time in a vegetative state, half in an accelerated condition that affords them inhuman strength and inspires the fiercest of appetites, their digestive processes would likely be a gross parody of the human, producing incredibly vile liquified wastes and ghastly breath.

Only when venom had wholly liquified the muscles did the frozen limbs collapse and the head loll forward.

Galileo claimed: The liquified metal had quickly set the interior mold afloat, despite its great weight.

When she saw Samson, the Strong Man, reduced to such pathetic, liquifying misery, her face took on an April hue of sympathetic showers.

That thousands of tiny red spiders swarmed over her, liquifying her so the fungus could suck her dry.

Directly before him, the substance that seemed so firm beneath his feet liquified and began turning slowly, then expanded upward, twisting, contorting into a vaguely, humanlike form.

I would gladly know how Moses with an actual fire calcined or burnt the Golden Calf unto powder: for that mystical metal of Gold, whose solary and celestial nature I admire, exposed unto the violence of fire, grows only hot, and liquifies, but consumeth not.