vitrify

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: vit=ri=fy

CIDE DICTIONARY

vitrify, v. t. [F. vitrifier; L. vitrum glass + -ficare to make. See Vitreous, -fy.].

 To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.  [1913 Webster]

vitrify, v. t. 

 To become glass; to be converted into glass.  [1913 Webster]
"Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined, which will not vitrify in the fire."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vitrify, v.tr. & intr. (-ies, -ied) convert or be converted into glass or a glasslike substance esp. by heat.

Derivative

vitrifaction n. vitrifiable adj. vitrification n.

Etymology

F vitrifier or med.L vitrificare (as VITREOUS)

ROGET THESAURUS

vitrify

Hardness

VB render hard, harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify, accrust.