Bat stars stick their stomachs and digestive juices over their food to liquefy it.
Source: tatoeba (6604249)
Liquefy
//ˈlɪ.kwɪ.faɪ//
Synonyms for "liquefy" (35 found)
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44 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- втечня verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- втечня се verb (intransitive: to become liquid)
- втечнявам verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- втечнявам се verb (intransitive: to become liquid)
Catalan
1 entries- liqüefer verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 液化 verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Czech
1 entries- zkapalnit verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Finnish
1 entries- nesteyttää verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
French
1 entries- liquéfier verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Galician
2 entries- derreter verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- licuar verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
German
1 entries- verflüssigen verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Greek
2 entries- ρευστοποιώ verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- υγροποιώ verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Hungarian
4 entries- cseppfolyóssá válik verb (intransitive: to become liquid)
- cseppfolyósít verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- elfolyósít verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- felenged verb (intransitive: to become liquid)
Ido
1 entries- liquidigar verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Irish
1 entries- leachtaigh verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Japanese
1 entries- 液化する verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Korean
1 entries- 액화시키다 verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Persian
1 entries- ذوب کردن: تبدیل به مایع کردن verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Polish
2 entries- upłynniać verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- upłynnić verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Portuguese
1 entries- liquefazer verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Quechua
1 entries- chulluchiy verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Romanian
1 entries- lichefia verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Russian
2 entries- превраща́ть в жи́дкость verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- сжи́живать verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Spanish
4 entries- licuar verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- licuarse verb (intransitive: to become liquid)
- licuecer (disused) verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
- licuecerse (disused) verb (intransitive: to become liquid)
Tagalog
1 entries- sadanumin verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Welsh
1 entries- hylifo verb (transitive: to make (something) into a liquid)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
When 19th century scientists first tried to liquefy oxygen, it seemed an impossible task.
Source: tatoeba (11791718)
We’ll liquefy this rock by heating it in a furnace until it melts and flows out.
Source: wiktionary
Faraday succeeded in liquefying a certain number of gases by compression and refrigeration, but there still remained a number that proved absolutely refractory to the most powerful agencies; hence these gases were called permanent. […] A retired manufacturer, who at the same time is a distinguished man of science, M. Cailletet, has subdued the permanent gases, having succeeded in liquefying and solidifying them.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.