Found 2 items, similar to Vitrify.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: vitrify
vitrify
v 1: change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat
2: undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like
[also:
vitrified]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Vitrify
Vitrify
\Vit"ri*fy\, v. t.
To become glass; to be converted into glass.
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Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined,
which will not vitrify in the fire. --Arbuthnot.
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Vitrify
\Vit"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Vitrified; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Vitrifying.] [F. vitrifier; L. vitrum glass +
-ficare to make. See
Vitreous,
-fy.]
To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy
substance, by heat and fusion.
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