Definition of "gasify" [gas•i•fy]

• To convert into or become gas. (verb-transitive)

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• "The basic technology to gasify wood was developed during WWII by individuals who wanted to keep driving in the face of gasoline rationing, but it was always a finicky process, dependent on the time-consuming preparation of fuel into dry, one inch cubes of wood."
• ""This facility will use intense heat to gasify waste," Gorey said, but added that he could not share how much garbage will be handled."
• "As Peter Ford reports in the Monitor, China is manufacturing six times as many solar cells than the US, is selling the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid car, and is developing cutting-edge technologies to gasify coal."