liquify

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Perhaps from liquid + -fy, or more probably a variant spelling of liquefy to match other words in -ify.

Yet I only smoked two, and liquified with one glass of spirits and water. — The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford, Walter Scott
By liquifying the evidence of the prejudiced books and of the prejudiced parliamentary witnesses and stirring the whole together and pouring it into my own (prejudiced) moulds, I have got at the truth of that puzzling South African situation, which is this: 1. — Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Mark Twain
The flood was probably produced by the melting not only of the winter's snow, but also of older layers of ice, which were suddenly liquified by the permeation of hot steam and lava, and which had been previously preserved from melting by a deposit of sand and ashes, as in the case of the ancient glacier found near the summit of the mountain in 1828. — Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, Trumbull White

liquefy, liquidize, liquidise

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