Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To convert into a base.
  • transitive verb To make alkaline.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In chem., to convert into a salifiable base.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Chem.) To convert into a salifiable base.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb chemistry To make more basic (less acidic)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb turn basic and less acidic

Etymologies

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base +‎ -ify

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