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liquefy

[lik-wuh-fahy] / ˈlɪk wəˌfaɪ /
VERB
melt
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Gallium is a quirky silver metal with low enough melting temperature that it can liquefy in your hand.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

Calpine appealed to him partly because of its work on carbon capture, a process allowing it to capture the carbon dioxide emissions coming out of plants, liquefy them, and store them underground.

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

But the company uses the heat generated by the electricity itself, rather than acid, to liquefy the ore.

From Science Magazine Apr. 30, 2024

“It allows you to completely throw yourself into things that you believe in and liquefy your anxiety,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2023

Hazel wondered what it would be like to melt, if you would feel yourself slowly liquefy, or if your conscious thoughts would evaporate away before you did.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Who’s washing it, chopping it, remembering it exists in the crisper drawer before it liquefies?

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

The building’s walls and ceilings are constructed with a vegetable-based material that liquefies on hot afternoons to absorb heat and then solidifies at night.

From Washington Times Jan. 29, 2023

As the gas liquefies, it shrinks, and becomes six hundred times smaller, making it much easier to transport.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2022

The line stops at 111 K because methane liquefies at this temperature; when extrapolated, it intersects the graph’s origin, representing a temperature of absolute zero.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

At the high altar, which the illustration shows, the blood of S. Januarius liquefies every year on the anniversary of the saint's martyrdom in September.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

Gas will be transported to Egypt before being liquefied in Damietta LNG plant on the country’s Mediterranean coast.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

The investment in the group’s longest-operating offshore field in Abu Dhabi comes as it grows its natural gas and liquefied natural gas portfolio.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

It became a leading producer and exporter of liquefied natural gas, thanks to international partnerships and investments that had been brokered.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

The sector got a lift from ongoing buildout in natural-gas infrastructure to support both electric power for data centers and liquefied natural gas exports.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

I lay prone on the bathroom floors of several museums, feeling the cold tile underneath my cheek as my brain liquefied and seeped out my ear, bubbling.

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart

As a former undertaker, Morton-Hayward knew the brain is perhaps the softest of the body’s soft tissues: It tends to decay quickly after death, liquefying and leaving only the skull behind.

From Science Magazine Mar. 19, 2024

People had been liquefying excess Gruyére in a bath of oxidized wine and mopping it up with day-old bread in the Alps for centuries, but the practice had never jumped the pond.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2023

And how did they convey the sandworm rushing through the sand, liquefying every particle in its path?

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2022

Constructed in 1951 and 1968, respectively, the lower and upper dams are crumbling, and the soil underneath is at risk of liquefying.

From Seattle Times Aug. 24, 2019

The other Tidemaker did the same, features liquefying, but then solidifying once more, his face gray, speckled with bits of metal.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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