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
Adj. liquefied &c. v., liquescent, liquefiable; deliquescent, soluble, colliquative†.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The study of the effects of pressure and temperature on many gases led to the introduction of the term “permanent gases” to denote gases which were apparently not liquefiable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
