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liquefy

[lik-wuh-fahy] / ˈlɪk wəˌfaɪ /
VERB
melt
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Egypt has facilities to liquefy natural gas that allow the energy source to be shipped abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 2025

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

The Wicked Witch would liquefy when drenched with water. marshal.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Before that, I gently pierce its skin with a knife, just enough to release the precious fat after it liquefies.

From Salon Nov. 1, 2025

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 separation of oxygen from air begins with cooling and compressing the air until it liquefies.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

Then the air liquefies and runs into a receptacle, where it may be drawn off at pleasure.

From Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. by Gray, Elisha

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

In normal times the strait accounts for about one-fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

The joint venture will operate independently and trade commodities such as oil, gas, liquefied natural gas and biofuels, Eni said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

Technip Energies has worked for most of the countries in the Middle East, on everything from pipelines to liquefied natural gas facilities.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

Beside her, Celia was grinning loosely, like her jaw muscles had all liquefied.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

Companies are developing and marketing varied and creative ways to store renewable energy: liquefying carbon dioxide, de-rusting iron, heating towers filled with sand to temperatures almost hot enough to melt aluminum.

From New York Times Mar. 18, 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

Through the process of capillary action, contaminated water and liquefying waste, like that deposited in latrines, could travel to the sources of public drinking water.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

The total weight came to around fifty pounds of Biohazard Level 4 liquefying primate.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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