acidify
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[edit] Etymology
From acid + -fy, from Latin acidus (“‘sour, acid’”); compare French acidifier.
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to acidify (third-person singular simple present acidifies, present participle acidifying, simple past and past participle acidified)
- to make something acid or sour; to convert into an acid; to neutralize alkalis, as to acidify sugar
- to sour, to embitter.
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- His thin existence all acidified into rage. - Thomas Carlyle
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to make something acid
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to embitter
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