VINIFY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they vinify ... he / she / it vinifies

Past simple: vinified

Past participle: vinified

-ing form: vinifying

Meaning:

Convert a juice into wine by fermentation

Example:

vinify grape juice

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

ferment; work (cause to undergo fermentation)

Domain category:

wine making; winemaking (the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

vinification (the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine)

wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))