decrepitate

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Decrepitate, de-krep′i-tāt, v.i. to crackle, as salts when heated.—v.t. to roast so as to cause a continual crackling, to calcine.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various