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VITRIFY
Definition of VITRIFY
verb
To convert into glass or a glass-like substance by heat and fusion.
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Other senses
VITRIFY carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To change or make into glass or a glassy substance, especially through heat fusion.
intransitive verb
To become vitreous.
To convert into glass by the action of heat. See glass.
To become glass; be converted into glass.
Where it comes from
From Middle French vitrifier, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,696)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
VITRIFY in a sentence
“The painting with vitreous colours on glass depends entirely on the same principles as painting in enamel, and he manner of executing it is likewise the same, except that in this the transparency of the colours being indispensably requisite no substance can be used to form them but such as vitrify perfectly, since, without such vitrification, there can be no transparency.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
VITRIFY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 30 boards so far. 87 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
VITRIFY starts with V and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read FIIRTVY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of VITRIFY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start VITRIF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found VITRIFY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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