OPACIFY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does opacify mean? 

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

1. make opaque

2. become opaque

  Familiarity information: OPACIFY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPACIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they opacify    ... he / she / it opacifies   
Past simple: opacified   
Past participle: opacified   
-ing form: opacifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make opaque

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The glass was opacified more greater privacy

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

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

Verb group:

opacify (become opaque)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become opaque

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and the patient may go blind

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

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

Verb group:

opacify (make opaque)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

opacification (the process of becoming cloudy or opaque)