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acidify

/əˈsɪdɪfaɪ/

acidify verb: to make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.

Verb

acidify (third-person singular simple present acidifies, present participle acidifying, simple past and past participle acidified)

  1. (transitive) To make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
  2. (transitive) To neutralize alkalis.
    • to acidify sugar
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To sour; to embitter.
    • [H]is thin existence all acidified into rage1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book III (The Girondins), page 181

acidify meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

acidify in Tamil

புளிக்கவை, புளித்துப் போ

acidify in Bengali

অম্ল করা

acidify in Malayalam

അമ്ലീകരിക്കുക

acidify in Kannada

ಹುಳಿಯಾಗಿಸು, ಹುಳಿಸು

Antonyms of acidify

Forms of acidify

third-person singular presentacidifies
present participleacidifying
past participleacidified
pastacidified

Origin of acidify

From acid + -ify, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”); compare French acidifier.

Words formed from acidify

Questions about acidify

What does acidify mean?
Acidify means to make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
What is acidify in Tamil?
Acidify in Tamil is புளிக்கவை, புளித்துப் போ. See Acidify meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is acidify?
Acidify is a verb.
How do you pronounce acidify?
Acidify is pronounced /əˈsɪdɪfaɪ/.
What is the past tense of acidify?
The past tense of acidify is acidified.

Words near acidify in the dictionary

  1. acidifications
  2. acidified
  3. acidifier
  4. acidifiers
  5. acidifies
  6. acidify
  7. acidifying
  8. acidimeter
  9. acidimeters
  10. acidimetre
  11. acidimetres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acidify (page history and authors); acidify (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acidify (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acidify (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acidify (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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