ACIDIFY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: acidified

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they acidify ... he / she / it acidifies

Past simple: acidified

Past participle: acidified

-ing form: acidifying

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Meaning:

Turn acidic

Example:

the solution acetified

Synonyms:

acetify; acidify

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "acidify" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

alkalize (turn basic and less acidic)

Derivation:

acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)

acidification (the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid)

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