liquefy
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become liquid.
liquefying
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present participleof liquefy.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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As a former undertaker, Morton-Hayward knew the brain is perhaps the softest of the body’s soft tissues: It tends to decay quickly after death, liquefying and leaving only the skull behind.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 19, 2024
People had been liquefying excess Gruyére in a bath of oxidized wine and mopping it up with day-old bread in the Alps for centuries, but the practice had never jumped the pond.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2023
Through the process of capillary action, contaminated water and liquefying waste, like that deposited in latrines, could travel to the sources of public drinking water.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
It appears that liquefying garbage was allowed to seep into soil, despite requirements that there should be waterproof layers laid under landfills to contain such seepage.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Nathan sang the Change song again and instead of thinking of water solidifying, he thought of it liquefying and transforming into mist.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
