LIQUIDIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liquidize mean? 

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

1. sell or get rid of all one's merchandise

2. make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating

  Familiarity information: LIQUIDIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIQUIDIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they liquidize    ... he / she / it liquidizes   
Past simple: liquidized   
Past participle: liquidized   
-ing form: liquidizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sell or get rid of all one's merchandise

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

liquidize; sell out; sell up

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

cast aside; cast away; cast out; chuck out; discard; dispose; fling; put away; throw away; throw out; toss; toss away; toss out (throw or cast away)

"Liquidize" entails doing...:

sell (exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

liquefy; liquidise; liquidize; liquify

Context example:

liquefy the silver

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

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

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

liquidizer (an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods)