vitrifier
French, verb/vi.tʁi.fje/
vitrifier is a French verb meaning “to vitrify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fondre une substance de manière qu’elle se transforme en verre ou qu’elle prenne l’éclat, la transparence, la…”.
What does vitrifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to vitrify
Vitrifier le sable.
- 2
to make as solid as glass
Je n'en ai gardé souvenir de rien de précis [de ces quelques jours passés avec Pierre Louis], mais bien seulement d'une extraordinaire ferveur, d'une joie, d'une frénésie qui m'éveillait dès l'aube, éternisait chaque instant de chaque heure
- 3
to lacquer, give something a smooth, glassy finish
Vitrifier un plancher.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fondre une substance de manière qu’elle se transforme en verre ou qu’elle prenne l’éclat, la transparence, la dureté du verre. 2. Rendre dur et inaltérable comme le verre. 3. Anéantir totalement un territoire par l’usage d’armes puissantes, généralement nucléaires.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of vitrifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- vitrifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- vitrifié participle past
- vitrifie first-person indicative present
- vitrifies indicative present second-person
- vitrifions first-person indicative plural
- vitrifiez indicative plural present
- vitrifient indicative plural present
- vitrifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- vitrifiait imperfect indicative singular
- vitrifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- vitrifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- vitrifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- vitrifiai first-person historic indicative
- vitrifias historic indicative past
- vitrifia historic indicative past
- vitrifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vitrifier?
- /vi.tʁi.fje/
- \vi.tʁi.fje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vitrifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vitrifier in French?
vitrifier appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).