liquefy
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become liquid.
had liquefied
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past perfectof liquefy.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By the end of class, my leg muscles had liquefied.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2019
They spent three days chopping and stacking wood, pounding steel posts into a hill and slicing up water tanks that had liquefied in the fire into pancakes of melted plastic.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2018
Kronos’s scythe had liquefied into molten metal and was trickling into the coals of the hearth, which now glowed like a blacksmith’s furnace.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
When a coworker shouted at her to get out of the building, she moved to the parking lot, where the ground beneath the pavement had liquefied.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Then her mother collapsed; she simply began to slide down as if her bones had liquefied until she half lay, half sat on the floor.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
