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[syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vitrified \Vit"ri*fied\, a.
Converted into glass.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vitrify \Vit"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vitrified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Vitrifying.] [F. vitrifier; L. vitrum glass +
-ficare to make. See Vitreous, -fy.]
To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy
substance, by heat and fusion.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
vitrified
adj 1: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous
by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery";
"glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for
plumbing fixtures" [syn: glassy, vitreous,
vitrified]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "vitrified":
backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted,
crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened, hornified,
incrusted, indurate, indurated, lapidified, ossified, petrified,
reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled,
stiffened, strengthened, toughened