VINIFY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vinify mean? 

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

1. convert a juice into wine by fermentation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VINIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they vinify    ... he / she / it vinifies   
Past simple: vinified   
Past participle: vinified   
-ing form: vinifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert a juice into wine by fermentation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

vinify grape juice

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

ferment; work (cause to undergo fermentation)

Domain category:

wine making; winemaking (the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

vinification (the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine)

wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))