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GASIFY
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected form: gasified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they gasify ... he / she / it gasifies
Past simple: gasified
-ing form: gasifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
The substance gasified
Synonyms:
aerify; gasify; vaporise; vaporize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "gasify" is one way to...):
change integrity (change in physical make-up)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gasify"):
sublimate; sublime (change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
gas (the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container)
gas (a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines)
gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)
gas (a fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homes)
gasification (the process of changing into gas)