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liquefy

[lik-wuh-fahy] / ˈlɪk wəˌfaɪ /
VERB
melt
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The Qatari facilities that liquefy the fuel, located in the industrial city of Ras Laffan, are difficult to ramp up and down with every exchange of fire.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Calpine appealed to him partly because of its work on carbon capture, a process allowing it to capture the carbon dioxide emissions coming out of plants, liquefy them, and store them underground.

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

But the company uses the heat generated by the electricity itself, rather than acid, to liquefy the ore.

From Science Magazine Apr. 30, 2024

“All I want to say is that I love you so much, I don’t want to be without you,” D’Angelo croons repeatedly, until his language seems to liquefy.

From New York Times Jan. 12, 2024

The liver bulges up and turns yellow, begins to liquefy, and then it cracks apart.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Before that, I gently pierce its skin with a knife, just enough to release the precious fat after it liquefies.

From Salon Nov. 1, 2025

It often decays and liquefies shortly after death.

From Science Magazine Mar. 21, 2024

As the gas liquefies, it shrinks, and becomes six hundred times smaller, making it much easier to transport.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2022

Nutrient-rich seal oil is rendered from the cold-water animal’s fat, which liquefies at room temperature.

From Washington Times Feb. 23, 2019

This fat in the bone and that in and around the muscles liquefies in making soup stock.

From School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer

The Gulf of Oman lies on the Indian Ocean side of the narrow Hormuz strait, a vital energy conduit that normally carries around a fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

While some oil has managed to make it to the market, Croft said they are more worried about liquefied natural gas, which is “stranded with transits near zero” at the six-month mark of the conflict.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

Before joining Suncor in 2022, he was CEO of LNG Canada, a big liquefied natural gas producer operating on the country’s west coast between Shell, Petroliam Nasional Bhd, PetroChina, Mitsubishi and Korea Gas Corp.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

RWE said it will instead invest $900 million to acquire an indirect 16% stake in a liquefied natural gas terminal in Louisiana and $300 million to support the development of natural gas turbines.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

I feel the ground underneath the building rupture—I can almost taste the iron in the liquefied earth.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

As a former undertaker, Morton-Hayward knew the brain is perhaps the softest of the body’s soft tissues: It tends to decay quickly after death, liquefying and leaving only the skull behind.

From Science Magazine Mar. 19, 2024

Companies are developing and marketing varied and creative ways to store renewable energy: liquefying carbon dioxide, de-rusting iron, heating towers filled with sand to temperatures almost hot enough to melt aluminum.

From New York Times Mar. 18, 2024

People had been liquefying excess Gruyére in a bath of oxidized wine and mopping it up with day-old bread in the Alps for centuries, but the practice had never jumped the pond.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2023

Through the process of capillary action, contaminated water and liquefying waste, like that deposited in latrines, could travel to the sources of public drinking water.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

Nathan sang the Change song again and instead of thinking of water solidifying, he thought of it liquefying and transforming into mist.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young




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