Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To reduce or convert a carbon-containing substance to carbon, as by partial burning.
- transitive verb To coat or combine with carbon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.).
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
- transitive verb To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To turn something to
carbon , especially by heating it; toscorch orblacken . - verb chemistry To
react something with carbon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb turn into carbon, as by burning
- verb unite with carbon
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Examples
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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."
Old Salt, Dead Sea Gerard Helferich 2011
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Darken it too much and you can carbonize the surface and burn all the good stuff in the paste.
Meathead Goldwyn: Secrets Of Holiday Prime Rib On The Grill Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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Darken it too much and you can carbonize the surface and burn all the good stuff in the paste.
Meathead Goldwyn: Secrets Of Holiday Prime Rib On The Grill Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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Darken it too much and you can carbonize the surface and burn all the good stuff in the paste.
Meathead Goldwyn: Secrets Of Holiday Prime Rib On The Grill Meathead Goldwyn 2010
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So, let's say we begin today to de-carbonize the global economy by increasing the price of carbon-based energy, reducing our demand for oil, developing alternative fuels and achieving energy efficiency through technological advances.
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Oxygen had to be withheld during the firing process and the clay had to carbonize.
The Paprika Ewer 2008
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Oxygen had to be withheld during the firing process and the clay had to carbonize.
The Paprika Ewer Marc Fitten 2008
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Love to see the glow on Kristol and Hannity before they carbonize.
Think Progress » From Hype To Hysteria: Fox News Selling Preemptive War Against Iran 2006
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Then coal and ore were arranged in heaps and in successive layers, as the charcoal-burner does with the wood which he wishes to carbonize.
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Then coal and ore were arranged in heaps and in successive layers, as the charcoal-burner does with the wood which he wishes to carbonize.
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