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liquefied

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liq·ue·fy also liq·ui·fy  (lkw-f)
v. liq·ue·fied, liq·ue·fy·ing, liq·ue·fies
v.tr.
To cause to become liquid, especially:
a. To melt (a solid) by heating.
b. To condense (a gas) by cooling.
v.intr.
To become liquid.
[Middle English liquefien, from Old French liquefier, from Latin liquefacere : liqure, to be liquid + facere, to make; see fact.]
lique·fier n.
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Adj.1.liquefied - reduced to a liquid state; "liquefied petroleum gas"
liquified
liquid - existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow; "water and milk and blood are liquid substances"
2.liquefiedliquefied - reduced to liquid form by heating; "a mass of molten rock"
molten, liquified
liquified, melted, liquid - changed from a solid to a liquid state; "rivers filled to overflowing by melted snow"
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They went through the muddy village, past threshing floors and green fields of winter rye, downhill where snow still lodged near the bridge, uphill where the clay had been liquefied by the rain, past strips of stubble land and bushes touched with green here and there, and into a birch forest growing on both sides of the road.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The wonderful projectile was not even heated under the intense deflagration of the powder, nor liquefied, as they seemed to fear, in a shower of aluminum.
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I will not insult a person of your experience and intelligence by enumerating the various ways in which the seal of a dispatch may be liquefied.
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