Meanings
present singular third person gasifies · participle present gasifying · participle past gasified · past gasified · alternative gassify
- ambitransitiveTo convert into a gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes; to become a gas or aeriform fluid.
Butane will gasify at low pressure, and can be contained in light canisters.
1978, Rob Hunter, chapter 4, in The Spur Backpacking and Camping Cook Book, page 282 more examples
[…] when we consider the disappearance of the dense smoke in Mr. Giddy’s experiment, there seems to be great reason to think that the charcoal was oxygenated and gassified.
1806, The Literary Magazine, and American Register, volume 5, page 65Fleets of automated diggers and carts would be manufactured to haul the processed material in to centralized factories, where the material would be gassified and released from tall mobile stacks.
1996, Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars, page 245
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰeh₂-
- Ancient Greekχαῦνος (khaûnos)
- Ancient Greekχάος (kháos)
- Dutchgas
- Englishgas
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Italic*θakos
- Englishgasify
Translations
Bulgarian газифицирам, превръщам в газ
- газифицирам (gazificiram)to convert into gas
- превръщам в газ (prevrăštam v gaz)to convert into gas
Catalan gasificar
- gasificarto convert into gas
Chinese Mandarin 氣化 /气化
- 氣化 /气化 (qìhuà)to convert into gas
Finnish kaasuttaa, kaasuunnuttaa
- kaasuttaato convert into gas
- kaasuunnuttaato convert into gas
French gazéifier
- gazéifierto convert into gas
German vergasen
- vergasento convert into gas
Greek αεριοποιώ
- αεριοποιώ (aeriopoió)to convert into gas
Italian gassificare
- gassificareto convert into gas
Japanese 気化する
- 気化する (kika suru)to convert into gas
Korean 기화(氣化)하다
- 기화(氣化)하다 (gihwahada)to convert into gas
Polish gazyfikować, zgazyfikować
- gazyfikowaćto convert into gas
- zgazyfikowaćto convert into gas
- zgazowywaćto convert into gas
- zgazowaćto convert into gas
Portuguese gaseificar, gasificar
- gaseificarto convert into gas
- gasificarto convert into gas
Romanian gazifica
- gazificato convert into gas
Russian газифици́ровать, превраща́ть в газ
- газифици́ровать (gazificírovatʹ)to convert into gas
- превраща́ть в газ (prevraščátʹ v gaz)to convert into gas
Spanish gasificar
- gasificarto convert into gas
Vietnamese khí hoá
- khí hoáto convert into gas
Cite this entry
gasify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gasify
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