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US
/ˈɫɪkwəˌfaɪ/
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[ UK /lˈɪkwɪfˌaɪ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪkwɪfˌaɪ/ ]
VERB
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become liquid
The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew -
become liquid or fluid when heated
the frozen fat liquefied -
make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating
liquefy the silver
How To Use liquefy In A Sentence
- It is present in serum, urine, and seminal fluid and is responsible for liquefying semen immediately following ejaculation.
- Next, they regurgitate digestive fluid into their victim's bodies, essentially liquefying them in their shells.
- I'm just heating it to its point of pliability, rather than liquefying it all over again.
- In the event of the sand liquefying below the basement, the soil should still be able to support the building.
- Exporters liquefy the gas and ship it in tankers, then convert it back to gas at U.S. ports and deliver it through pipelines.
- There were some designs from an old USSR program that used a eutectic mix of lead and bismuth for a similar purpose, heated to liquefy the metal. Archive 2008-02-01
- Government created Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to "liquefy" the mortgage market AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online
- You can liquefy the carbon dioxide to separate it from the other constituents.
- John Etherington, a retired reader of ecology at the University of Wales in Cardiff and specialist in environmental science, argued that highly decayed peat can "liquefy" through vibration. RoguePundit
- Kamerlingh-Onnes succeeded in liquefying helium, starting a development that revealed many new and unexpected phenomena. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 - Presentation Speech
