nitrify

Other forms of nitrify

past tense or participle

nitrified

present participle

nitrifying·

third person

nitrifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nitrify

What does nitrify mean?

nitrify means "convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nitrify?

nitrify has 3 syllables and divides as ni-tri-fy under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nitrify?

Close synonyms include nitrogenize, nitrogenise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of nitrify?

The recorded antonyms are denitrify.

Is nitrify a common word?

nitrify is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.