MEANING
To turn into a liquid or cause something to take a liquid state.
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Words that belong together
- liquefy under heat
- liquefied tissue
On the page
Heat liquefied the wax around the seal.
In the fictional experiment, the damaged tissue began to liquefy.
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Word forms
- Base
- liquefy
- Past tense
- liquefied
- Past participle
- liquefied
- Present participle
- liquefying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- liquefy
- Present continuous
- am/is/are liquefying
- Present perfect
- have/has liquefied
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been liquefying
- Past
- liquefied
- Past continuous
- was/were liquefying
- Past perfect
- had liquefied
- Past perfect continuous
- had been liquefying
- Future
- will liquefy
- Future continuous
- will be liquefying
- Future perfect
- will have liquefied
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been liquefying
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: liquefy; liquefies; liquefied; liquefied; liquefying Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: liquefies.
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