aerify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: gasify, vaporise, vaporize |
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aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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(verb) transform into gold | - |
chondrify | (verb) turn into cartilage | - |
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clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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(verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
denitrify | (verb) remove nitrogen from | - |
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devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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(verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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(verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
(verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
esterify | (verb) change (a compound) into an ester | - |
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etherify | (verb) change into an ether | - |
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gentrify | (verb) renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations | - |
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glorify | (verb) bestow glory upon | - |
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(verb) cause to seem more splendid | - |
(verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: spiritualize, transfigure |
(verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, laud, proclaim |
horrify | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, dismay |
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metrify | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metricize |
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(verb) compose in poetic meter | - |
nitrify | (verb) treat (soil) with nitrates | - |
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(verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrogenise, nitrogenize |
(verb) convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria | - |
nutrify | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nourish |
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petrify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: lapidify |
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(verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright | - |
(verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, rigidify |
purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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(verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
(verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
rarify | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, refine |
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saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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(verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
scarify | (verb) puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals | - |
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(verb) break up | - |
(verb) scratch the surface of | - |
terrify | (verb) fill with terror; frighten greatly | Synonyms: terrorise, terrorize |
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thurify | (verb) perfume especially with a censer | Synonyms: cense, incense |
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transmogrify | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transfigure |
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verify | (verb) confirm the truth of | - |
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(verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear |
(verb) attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition) | - |
(verb) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | Synonyms: control |
vitrify | (verb) undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like | - |
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(verb) change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat | - |