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v. To reduce or convert a carbon-containing substance to carbon, as by partial burning.

v. To coat or combine with carbon.

v. To turn something to carbon, especially by heating it; to scorch or blacken.

v. To react something with carbon.

v. To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.

v. To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.

To convert into carbon by combustion or the action of fire, or by other natural processes.

To cover with carbon (in the form of charcoal or lampblack).

To carburize.

Also spelled carbonise.

To destroy (the vegetable matter mixed with wool or other animal fibers) by chemical means (as a dilute solution of sulphuric or hydrochloric acid) and high temperature (210° F.).

v. turn into carbon, as by burning

v. unite with carbon

"Though they were now only 65 air miles from their destination, the great salt lake lay more than 200 miles down the meandering river, through bands of belligerent nomads, wild rapids and a sun that threatened to "carbonize those who should be unprotected from its fierceness.""

carbonized    carbonizes    carbonizing   

turn    change state   

carbonizing-furnace    paper   

carbonization   

carbonized    carbonizing   

char    burn    coke    chary