Associations to the word «Decrepitate»
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Wiktionary
DECREPITATE, verb. (transitive) To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.
DECREPITATE, verb. (intransitive) Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.
Dictionary definition
DECREPITATE, verb. Undergo decrepitation and crackle; "The salt decrepitated".
DECREPITATE, verb. To roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; "decrepitate salts".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.