Usually means: Heat causing substance to crackle.
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  1. decrepitate: Merriam-Webster
  2. decrepitate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decrepitate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decrepitate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decrepitate: Vocabulary.com
  6. decrepitate: Wordnik
  7. decrepitate: Wiktionary
  8. decrepitate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. decrepitate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. decrepitate: Dictionary.com
  11. Decrepitate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Decrepitate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. decrepitate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. decrepitate: Rhymezone
  15. Decrepitate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. decrepitate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. decrepitate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. decrepitate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. decrepitate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. decrepitate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decrepitate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decrepitate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decrepitate)

verb:  (transitive) To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.
verb:  (intransitive) Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.

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