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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of liquefy.

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Examples

  • De Alba's research concerns how saturated sand "liquefies" when it is shaken by an earthquake, temporarily losing a large proportion of its strength and potentially causing damaging landslides.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • De Alba's research concerns how saturated sand "liquefies" when it is shaken by an earthquake, temporarily losing a large proportion of its strength and potentially causing damaging landslides.

    Newswise: Latest News 2010

  • Starting at the beginning while a freshman at Princeton, Szaky co-founded a company that recycles garbage into worm poop, liquefies it, then packages it in used soda bottles, creating TerraCycle Plant Food.

    Revolution in a Bottle How TerraCycle is Redefining Green Business 2009

  • Since the 14th century, a substance said to be the dried blood of the martyred saint periodically liquefies and reddens, indicating good years and bad according to legend.

    Jeff Schweitzer: Heaven Can Wait Jeff Schweitzer 2011

  • As our planet slowly liquefies, it is being absorbed by The Great Deep.

    Brian Keene 2010

  • A cattle carcass has a thick layer of fat that liquefies over heat and causes flare ups.

    Wholly Cow! A Few Brave Grillers Go 'Nose-to-Tail' Katy McLaughlin 2011

  • Since the 14th century, a substance said to be the dried blood of the martyred saint periodically liquefies and reddens, indicating good years and bad according to legend.

    Jeff Schweitzer: Heaven Can Wait Jeff Schweitzer 2011

  • Since the 14th century, a substance said to be the dried blood of the martyred saint periodically liquefies and reddens, indicating good years and bad according to legend.

    Jeff Schweitzer: Heaven Can Wait Jeff Schweitzer 2011

  • His face liquefies, drips chin residue into a polychromatic pool.

    Monkeytown excerpt 5 Chris Vola 2011

  • It didn't help that his first exposure was in the episode in which a computer virus liquefies your brains.

    January 2009 2009

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