acidify

From acid +‎ -ify, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”); compare French acidifier.

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɪdɪfaɪ/

acidify (third-person singular simple present acidifies, present participle acidifying, simple past and past participle acidified) (transitive)

1. To make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
2. To neutralize alkalis.

   to acidify sugar

3. (figurative) To sour; to embitter.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     His thin existence all acidified into rage.

(antonym(s) of “chemistry”):

• alkalify
• basify

• acidification