saponify English

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saponify

— verb convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali saponify oils and fats

— verb become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali the oil saponified

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