acidify
verb/əˈsɪdɪfaɪ/
Etymology From acid + -ify, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”); compare French acidifier.
1
To make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
2
To neutralize alkalis.
- to acidify sugar
3
Figuratively To sour; to embitter.
- [H]is thin existence all acidified into rage1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book III (The Girondins), page 181:
- Derived terms
- acidifiable, acidific, disacidify, nonacidified, reacidify, unacidified
- Related terms
- acidification