TORREFY

Definition: TORREFY

TORREFY

Transitive verb

1. To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.

2. To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.

3. To dry by a fire.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Torrefy \Tor"re*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Torrefied; present participle verb or noun Torrefying.]. (Websters 1913)

Calefaction

Burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames.

Crosswords: TORREFY

Albanian

thaj (blot, desiccate, drain, drink off, dry, dry up, exsiccate, feel cool, sap, sear, wipe out, wither), nxeh (chafe, cook, enrage, excite, gall, heat, irritate, make angry, Mull, rile, roil, vex). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пържа (frizzle), пресушавам (drain, draw, dry up, suck dry), изсушавам (dry off, exsiccate, parch, rub dry, sear). (various references)

Greek 

ξηραίνω (drain, dry, parch, sear), ψήνω (bake, cook, frizz, frizzle, roast, season). (various references)

Hungarian

pörköl (to calcinate, to roast, to sinter). (various references)

Italian

tostare (roast, toast), cuocere (bake, boil, broil, cook, griddle). (various references)

Manx

cheerey (air by heat; rural, air; rural, inland, parch, sun-dry). (various references)

Pig Latin

orrefytay

Portuguese

torrefazer, torrar (char, grill, roast, toast). (various references)

Russian 

сушить (air, bake, dry, dry up, get dry, parch), обжигать (anneal, bake, burn, calcinate, char, decrepitate, parboil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sušiti zagrevanjem, žariti (calcine, stir, stoke). (various references)

Turkish

kurutmak (air, bake, corn, cure, dehydrate, deplete, desiccate, drain, dry, dry up, exhaust, parch, scorch, sear, season, shrivel, weather, wither), kavurmak (bake, blast, parboil, parch, roast, scorch, sear). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "TORREFY": torrefying. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ferry, fetor, forte, forty, foyer, frore, fryer, ofter, refry, retro, retry, terry, toyer.

-3 letters: fore, fort, fret, froe, oyer, reft, rote, ryot, tore, torr, tory, tref, trey, troy, tyer, tyre, tyro, yore.

-4 letters: eft, err, fer, fet, fey, foe, for, foy, fro, fry, oft, ore, ort, ref, ret, roe, rot, rye, toe, tor.

+1 letter: feretory, forestry.

+2 letters: ferrotype, ferryboat, offertory, prefatory, refectory, refortify.

+3 letters: effrontery, ferrotypes, ferryboats, refractory, torrefying.

+4 letters: fluorimetry, fluorometry, inferiority, perfunctory, reformatory.

+5 letters: agroforestry, performatory, reflationary, refortifying, refractorily.

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