n
(rare) Growth or regeneration from grafting.
n
(obsolete) The act or process of making white.
n
A substance that helps plants grow by improving the physical condition of the soil.
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Alternative form of anti-bumping granule [(chemistry) A small, coarse stone added to boiling liquids to make them boil more evenly, without sudden, violent releases of vapour; used especially in vacuum distillation]
n
(environmental science) The long-term process by which a region becomes more arid
v
(intransitive, of an organism) To become a fossil without any external influence.
v
(of a fossilized organism, transitive) To imprint in the fossilized skeleton of another organism.
v
(intransitive, obsolete, medicine) To become impregnated with salts of lime.
n
Alternative spelling of decolouration [The reversal of colouration; bleaching]
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(US, intransitive) To lose one’s color.
n
Alternative form of decolorizer [That which decolorizes.]
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A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
n
The process by which a geographic region becomes a desert, resulting from natural changes in climate or by human activity.
n
British standard spelling of diarrhea.
adj
Britain standard spelling of diarrheagenic.
v
(figuratively, by extension, transitive) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
v
(intransitive) To become full of fruit.
v
(intransitive) To become gelatinous.
v
Alternative form of jellify (“convert to a gel”) [(dated, intransitive) To form a jelly; to gel.]
v
(transitive) To stupefy, paralyze or petrify.
adj
Formed into, or composed of granules
v
(intransitive) To undergo karstification.
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The process by which something is kneaded.
adj
Capable of petrifying other bodies.
n
(pharmacology) The kneading and squeezing of ingredients into a mass for making pills and plasters.
n
The process of restoring water, soil, and plant life to an environment that has been degraded by soil erosion.
adj
Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone).
adj
Petrifying; converting into stone.
n
The condition of being petrified.
n
(figuratively) obduracy; callousness
adj
Having undergone the process of petrification (transformation into a stony substance).
n
(very rare) person or other object that petrifies, either literally or figuratively.
v
Alternative spelling of philter [To impregnate or mix with a love potion.]
v
Alternative spelling of posterize [To reduce the number of colors in an image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, with abrupt changes from one tone to another.]
v
(transitive) To make smooth with pumice.
n
The act of rusticating (intransitive verb sense).
v
(horticulture) To treat soil by covering with plastic and exposing to sunlight.
adj
Transformed into a statue.
v
(obsolete) To petrify (as a mineral, to harden).
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(transitive, informal) To prepare (a food), such as rice, in a sushilike form.
adj
Obsolete form of uncolored. [(American spelling) Having no color; not treated with a dye or other color.]
n
(agrobiology) The treatment of seeds or bulbs by exposure to low temperatures so as to decrease the vegetative period or to cause the plant to flower or bear fruit more quickly.
n
The process, or the result, of whitenizing.
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