Acidify

Definitions: Acidify

Acidify

Verb

1. Make sour or more sour.

2. Turn acidic, as of solutions and substances.

Note: Acidify \A*cid"i*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Acidified; present participle verb or noun Acidifying.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Acidify

Synonyms: acetify (v), acidulate (v), sour (v). (additional references)

Antonyms: alkalize (v), sweeten (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Acidify

English words defined with "acidify": Acidified, Acidifying. (references)

Specialty definitions using "acidify": Acid deposition / acid rain ♦ protective alkali. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The physician may recommend that patients take vitamin C supplements or drink cranberry juice, as these measures acidify urine and may reduce the risk of further infections. (references)
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"Acidify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Acidify" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	88.89%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "acidify": de-acidify.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "acidify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		acidoj (acidize), uthulloj (acetify), thartoj (acetify, acidize, bake, ferment, make a wry face, sour, strain relations). (various references)

Arabic		‏حمض (acidulated, sour), ‏حول الى حامض, ‏تحمض (acidification, sour). (various references)

Bulgarian		окислявам (acetify, acidize, oxidate, oxidize), подкиселявам (make sour, sour). (various references)

Chinese		酸化 (Acidification, Acidified, Acidifying, Acidulated). (various references)

Czech		okyselit. (various references)

Danish		tilhæftning (branching off, onset), surgøre (acidulate), insertion (branching off, insertion, onset), fæste (branching off, onset). (various references)

Dutch		aanzuren (acidification, acidifying, acidulate, to sour), zuur worden (grow sour, sour, souring), zuur maken, zuren, verzuren (grow sour, sour), ?. (various references)

French		acidifier (acidulate), s'acidifier (acidize). (various references)

German		säuern (acidifying, go sour, leaven, sour). (various references)

Greek		καθιστώ οξίνον, οξυνιζω, οξεοποιώ, οξίνιση (acidification, acidulate, souring). (various references)

Hebrew		ליצור חומצ�", ל�"פוך לחומצ�". (various references)

Hungarian		savasodik, savanyít (sour, to lay down, to sour, to wind). (various references)

Icelandic		súrna (grow sour, sour). (various references)

Italian		acidificare (acidifying, acidulate). (various references)

Manx		jannoo sharroo (acidulate, embitter), jannoo geayr, goll sharroo. (various references)

Pig Latin		acidifyay

Portuguese		acidular (acidulate, to sour), acidificar (acidize, acidulate). (various references)

Romanian		acri (acetify, Fox, sour), acidula (acidulate, sour), oxida (acetify, corrode, oxidate, oxidize, rust). (various references)

Russian		окисляться (oxidize), окислять (acetify, acidize, oxidate, oxidize, oxygenate, oxygenize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zakiseliti. (various references)

Spanish		acidificar (acidulate, to sour). (various references)

Swedish		försura. (various references)

Turkish		asitlemek, asitleştirmek, ekşitmek (acetify, cause to ferment, embitter, render sour). (various references)

Ukranian		окислятися (oxidize), окисляти (oxidate, oxidize, oxygenate, oxygenize), підкислювати (acidulate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	acescere. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "acidify": acidifying. (additional references)
	Words ending with "acidify": deacidify. (additional references)
	Words containing "acidify": deacidifying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Acidify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acidey. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "acidify" (pronounced usi"dufī')
5	-i" d u f ī'	solidify.
4	-d u f ī'	codify, edify, modify.
3	-u f ī'	amplify, beautify, calcify, certify, clarify, classify, crucify, decertify, declassify, deify, demystify, detoxify, dignify, disqualify, diversify, electrify, exemplify, falsify, fortify, gentrify, glorify, gratify, horrify, identify, indemnify, intensify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, mollify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, nullify, ossify, oversimplify, pacify, personify, petrify, purify, qualify, quantify, ramify, ratify, reclassify, rectify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, specify, stratify, stultify, terrify, testify, typify, unify, verify, vilify.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-f-i-i-y"
	-2 letters: acidy.
	-3 letters: acid, cadi, caid.
	-4 letters: aid, cad, cay, day, fad, fay, fid, icy, yid.
	-5 letters: ad, ai, ay, fa, id, if, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-f-i-i-y"
	+2 letters: deacidify, fiduciary.
	+3 letters: acidifying, fiducially, flaccidity.
	+5 letters: deacidifying, decalcifying, ferricyanide, fungicidally.
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