DECREPITATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decrepitate mean? 

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

1. undergo decrepitation and crackle

2. to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops

  Familiarity information: DECREPITATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECREPITATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they decrepitate    ... he / she / it decrepitates   
Past simple: decrepitated   
Past participle: decrepitated   
-ing form: decrepitating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Undergo decrepitation and crackle

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The salt decrepitated

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

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

decrepitate (to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

decrepitation (the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

decrepitate salts

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

decrepitate (undergo decrepitation and crackle)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

decrepitation (the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated)