variants also liquify
as in to melt
to go from a solid to a liquid state the steel liquefied in the intense heat of the forge

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Recent Examples of liquefy These are all weapons specifically designed to annihilate outsiders trying to get inside the cities, weapons meant to cause the most pain for the amusement of the insiders (think a napalm bomb ornately decorated in the shape of a cone, which liquifies outsiders in seconds). Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025 Aloe Vera Shots for Digestion Aloe vera shots are made by liquefying the clear gel inside the leaves of the aloe vera plant to create a drinkable form. Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 22 July 2025 Natural gas must be liquefied for export overseas, which has triggered the massive race to build out LNG facilities, especially along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. Jordan Blum, Fortune, 17 July 2025 At that point, internal heaters fire up, the two halves of the bolt liquify, and then melt back together again, healing the tendon within about half an hour. Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2019 See All Example Sentences for liquefy
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  • Microwave reserved 2 tablespoons browned butter until melted, 15 to 20 seconds.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Their sisters, Cotton and Sherpa, fall somewhere in between, but the picture of the size difference between Fleece and Flannel melted hearts online.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Today, there is a stronger crossover between content creators and DJs, fusing together music, film and fashion, now, more than ever.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • So Xinjiang launched an ambitious initiative to fuse data from all available sources, including banks, railways, and phone companies, into a central database.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Liquefy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liquefy. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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