regasify

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ gasify.

Verb

regasify (third-person singular simple present regasifies, present participle regasifying, simple past and past participle regasified)

1. To convert (a substance, especially liquefied natural gas (LNG)) back to gas.
   • 2020, Daniel Yergin, The New Map, Penguin 2021, p. 33:

     This new LNG business required very large investments […] to construct the plants that, at one end, would liquefy the gas and, at the other, regasify it […] .

Related terms

• regasification

Translations

convert back to gas

• French: regazéifier (fr)
• Galician: regasificar
• German: regasifizieren
• Italian: rigassificare (it)
• Portuguese: regaseificar
• Spanish: regasificar