vitrify

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The well, fifty feet in diameter, went straight down from the top of the mesa; as the headquarters had been buried under loose rubble, they'd had to vitrify the sides going down.

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  1. transitive verb To change or make into glass or a glassy substance, especially through heat fusion.
  2. intransitive verb To become vitreous.

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  1. French vitrifier, from Medieval Latin vitrificāre : Latin vitrum, glass + Latin -ficāre, -fy.

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  1. from French vitrifier = Spanish Portuguese viirificar = Italian vitrificare, from New Latin *vitrificare, from Latin vitrum, glass, +-ficare, from facere, make, do (see -fy).
 

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/ˈvɪtrɪfai/
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