vitrify

present singular third person vitrifies · participle present vitrifying · participle past vitrified · past vitrified

1. transitiveTo convert into glass or a glass-like substance by heat and fusion.

   Synonyms: glassify

2. intransitiveTo be converted into glass, especially through heat.

   A large percentage of all Late Horizon fragments at this site was overfired, to the point where many were vitrified, black to dark brown, and misshapen, some with blistered surfaces.

   1976, Dorothy Menzel, Pottery Style and Society in Ancient Peru: Art as a Mirror of History in the Ica Valley, 1350–1570, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 30

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   Her work was endless, she carried tubs and cauldrons and pails of heat-blasted sand, sand blasted into liquid glass, up the ladder that had vitrified where her bucket splashed, and tipped the liquid glass into the swimming pool, where, at the touch of the water, it turned into her huge, solid tears.

   1982 [1977], Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve, London: Virago Press, →ISBN