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vitrify
verb
(
vitrif, i, ed
)
to be made into glass, especially through heat
1977
: Her work was endless, she carried tubs and cauldrons and pails of heat-blasted sand, sand blasted into liquid glass, up the ladder that had
vitrified
where her bucket splashed, and tipped the liquid glass into the swimming pool, where, at the touch of the water, it turned into her huge, solid tears. " Angela Carter,
The Passion of New Eve
Etymology:
From Latin vitrium "glass".
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