liquefy
verb (used with or without object)
to make or become liquid.
liquefiable
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a word derived from
liquefy.
Example Sentences
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Sound Transit says contractor Kiewit now needs to engineer special foundations, so that trackway columns will support girders and trains despite the liquefiable soil.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
“They built it on liquefiable lands ... but they never called us,” Parrish said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2020
Fifteen per cent of Seattle is built on liquefiable land, including seventeen day-care centers and the homes of some thirty-four thousand five hundred people.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2015
On the other hand, the tiny worms are not able—or at least do not know how—to dig through the integument with their pair of guttural harpoons, to rend it and reach the liquefiable flesh.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Chronic esophagitis is to be controlled by esophageal lavage, the regulation of the diet to liquefiable foods and the administration of bismuth subnitrate.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
