plastify

English

Etymology

plastic +‎ -ify

Verb

plastify (third-person singular simple present plastifies, present participle plastifying, simple past and past participle plastified)

1. To make or become plastic or malleable.
   • 1977, Maurice William Ranney, Reinforced plastics and elastomers: recent developments, page 144:

     Mixer 4 may be any conventional single screw or twin-screw extruder equipped with heating means to plastify the thermoplastic resin mix therein.

   • 1996, Metal Powder Industries Federation, APMI International, American Powder Metallurgy Institute, Advances in Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials:

     At a soft initial deformation response, all cross-sections or loaded layers within the gauge length of the specimen may not plastify due to the variation of the actual load-bearing area along the specimen.

   • 2006, Karl U. Kainer, Magnesium:

     Some materials have a distinctly defined yield point, e.g. most steels, whereas other materials start to plastify gradually at very low stresses.

   • 2010, Chris Dolley, Magical Crimes: Twenty-Four Inches From Tulsa:

     Oh. Well, I can't identify the spell that was cast – other than that it required a large amount of magic – which would fit in with a shrink and plastify.