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decrepitate
DEFINITIONS OF:
decrepitate
1
v
to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops
“
decrepitate
salts”
Type of:
alter
,
change
,
modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
v
undergo decrepitation and crackle
“The salt
decrepitated
”
Type of:
change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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