CARBONIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carbonize mean? 

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

1. unite with carbon

2. turn into carbon, as by burning

  Familiarity information: CARBONIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARBONIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they carbonize    ... he / she / it carbonizes   
Past simple: carbonized   
Past participle: carbonized   
-ing form: carbonizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unite with carbon

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

carbonise; carbonize; carburise; carburize

Context example:

carburize metal

Hypernyms (to "carbonize" 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:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Turn into carbon, as by burning

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

carbonise; carbonize

Context example:

carbonize coal

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

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

"Carbonize" entails doing...:

heat; heat up; hot up (gain heat or get hot)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)

carbonic (relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon)

carbonization (the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens))