fluidifyv.
/fluːˈɪdᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /fluˈɪdəˌfaɪ/ transitive. To make fluid.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > make liquid [verb (transitive)]
resolvea1398
flow1413
distilc1470
flux1477
liquefy1547
cut1578
uncrud1598
illiquefact1599
resolve1604
infuse1607
egelidate1609
eliquate1621
liquidate1656
diffude1657
liquate1669
colliquate1680
solve1794
liquidize1837
fluidify1849
1849 C. Darwin in J. F. W. Herschel Man. Sci. Enq. (Lords Commissioners Admiralty) 175 Granitic rocks, which have been fluidified.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 280/2 This fluid condenses, fluidifies the respiratory gases in transitu.
Derivatives
fluˈidified adj.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [adjective]
moltena1400
eliquate?a1425
remiss?1440
resolveda1500
liquefacted1598
liquefied1599
fluidified1842
liquated1874
1842 C. Darwin Geol. Observ. (1876) ii. xiv. 500 The fluidified granite.
1876 R. Bartholow Pract. Treat. Materia Med. ii. 212 The alvine dejections..consist at first of fluidified fæces.
fluidifiˈcation n. the action of making fluid.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [noun]
meltingeOE
humectation1477
liquefaction1477
colliquation1601
eliquation1603
dissolutiona1616
liquation1617
resolution1644
diffluence1673
uncurdling1673
flux1684
fluxion1731
fluidification1837
liquescence1875
fluidization1932
1837 T. S. Smith Philos. Health II. x. 161 It..needs no apparatus for the..fluidification of its food.
fluˈidifier n. an agent that fluidifies.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [noun] > agent that fluidifies
fluidifier1876
1876 A. B. Garrod Treat. Gout (ed. 3) 407 Bicarbonate of soda..causes a species of solution of the blood, and hence medicines of this class have been called fluidifiers.
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