liquefying formal , also: liquifying

It was a melting sensation, a liquefying, as if some part of the surface of the card had melted under his fingers and turned liquid.

Researchers had been particularly concerned that some places filled with loose sediments, like those around Kent, would experience large-scale liquefying of soils in a major earthquake.

Other retrofits to the BART tube include vibratory consolidation of the tube's overfill to avoid potential liquefying of the overfill, which has now been completed.

The liquefying of gases helped to establish that gases are the vapours of liquids possessing a very low boiling point, and gave a more solid basis to the concept of molecular aggregation.

Nonetheless, because of the sensitivity of the gluteal-region tissues, the skin of the pertinent donor-site is cooled in order to prevent ultrasonic heat damage caused by the liquefying and removal of the excess adipose fat.

Penn & Teller, however, go a bit further, imparting the wisdom that those expensive "sealer" gaskets don't actually preserve the body; in fact, they can lead to the speedy liquefying of the deceased's organs and even to the coffin's exploding underground.

Once I stepped on the liquefying remains of some little creature-it had been a planetetherium, I think-and poor Stubbins was forced to wait for me as, with noises of disgust, I scraped the remains of the little animal from the sole of my foot.