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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of saponify.
  • adjective Treated by saponification

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  • adjective converted into soap

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Examples

  • Which is interesting, because people who have observed saponified corpses have often compared them with this kind of soap.

    A Bit of Soap Heather McDougal 2009

  • I pictured him, my conflated man, sitting in a chair in a cabinet somewhere with a suit on, a solid block of man-seeming soap, watching with saponified eyes the comings and goings of his modern brethren.

    A Bit of Soap Heather McDougal 2009

  • I pictured him, my conflated man, sitting in a chair in a cabinet somewhere with a suit on, a solid block of man-seeming soap, watching with saponified eyes the comings and goings of his modern brethren.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • Now I'm just going to have to get Harper into a whole new kind of trouble starting with Book Six and some bad ju-ju, angry ghosts, more zombies, evil magicians, and saponified bodies ....

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • It wasn't until Egyptologist John Taylor joined the British Museum in the late 1980s that Granville's sample cases were found again, and the "wax" discovered to be the saponified flesh of the mummy herself.

    A Bit of Soap Heather McDougal 2009

  • It wasn't until Egyptologist John Taylor joined the British Museum in the late 1980s that Granville's sample cases were found again, and the "wax" discovered to be the saponified flesh of the mummy herself.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • Which is interesting, because people who have observed saponified corpses have often compared them with this kind of soap.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Heather McDougal 2009

  • Now I'm just going to have to get Harper into a whole new kind of trouble starting with Book Six and some bad ju-ju, angry ghosts, more zombies, evil magicians, and saponified bodies ....

    Bestselling author Kat Richardson tells all to Sci Fi Bookshelf 2010

  • And as part of that sterilization procedure, if you will, saponified lead salts were placed on his abdomen.

    Symphonic Forensics: Alsop's 'CSI Beethoven' 2008

  • For that reason, her products often employ a pump and use botanical ingredients other than water such as pure, premium, steam distilled essential oils, organic rice flour, handmade organic saponified olive oil and also ingredients such as rose hips, calendula and lemongrass.

    Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: Eco-Beauty Part 2: It's All About People 2008

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