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Carbonize   /kˈɑrbənˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Carbonize  v. t.  (past & past part. carbonized; pres. part. carbonizing)  
1.
To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
2.
To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.





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"Carbonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been a double-ply, heavy-gauge, woven fence. It was guaranteed to be able to stop a diplodocus in full charge; the electric potential (potential! That word again!) great enough to carbonize anything smaller than a blue whale. No animal on Alphegar IV could possibly ...
— Cum Grano Salis • Gordon Randall Garrett
... the hot snap which we recently incurred, When 'twas warm enough to carbonize the feathers of a bird, And men exclaimed: "By Hunky!" who were bad enough to swear, And pious persons supervised their ...
— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce


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