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Decrepitate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To roast or calcine (crystals or salts) until they emit a crackling sound or until crackling stops.

verb-intransitive. To make a crackling sound when roasted.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.

v. Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise.

verb-intransitive. To crackle, as salt in roasting.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To crackle, as salt when roasting.

To roast or calcine in a strong heat, so as to cause a continual bursting or crackling of the substance: as, to decrepitate salt.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops

v. undergo decrepitation and crackle

Word Usage

"The crystals are in the form of small cubes and contain no water of crystallization; some water is, however, held in cavities in the crystals and causes the salt to decrepitate when heated."

Verb Form

decrepitated decrepitating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter

Form

decrepitated decrepitating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

roast crackle