ACETIFY (acetified)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: acetified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does acetify mean? 

• ACETIFY (verb)
  The verb ACETIFY has 2 senses:

1. make sour or more sour

2. turn acidic

  Familiarity information: ACETIFY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACETIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they acetify    ... he / she / it acetifies   
Past simple: acetified   
Past participle: acetified   
-ing form: acetifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make sour or more sour

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

acetify; acidify; acidulate; sour

Hypernyms (to "acetify" is one way to...):

change taste (alter the flavor of)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

acetum (sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative)

acetum (a dilute solution of acetic acid that is used as a solvent (e.g. for a drug))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Turn acidic

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

acetify; acidify

Context example:

the solution acetified

Hypernyms (to "acetify" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

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Derivation:

acetum (a dilute solution of acetic acid that is used as a solvent (e.g. for a drug))