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rancidification

noun

Etymology

From rancid + -ification.

  1. learned borrowing from rancidus — “stinking, rank, rancid, offensive”
  2. suffixed as rancidification — “rancid + ification”

Definitions

  1. The decomposition of fats and other lipids by hydrolysis or oxidation

    The decomposition of fats and other lipids by hydrolysis or oxidation; the process of becoming rancid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rancidification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA