AMMONIFY (ammonified)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ammonified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does ammonify mean? 

• AMMONIFY (verb)
  The verb AMMONIFY has 1 sense:

1. treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification

  Familiarity information: AMMONIFY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMMONIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ammonify    ... he / she / it ammonifies   
Past simple: ammonified   
Past participle: ammonified   
-ing form: ammonifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

impregnate; saturate (infuse or fill completely)

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 frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

ammonification (impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia)

ammonium (the ion NH4 derived from ammonia; behaves in many respects like an alkali metal ion)