opalize

A rare or obsolete verb meaning to convert into opal or to give an opalescent quality to something.

• 🇫🇷Verbe rare ou désuet signifiant transformer en opale ou donner à quelque chose une qualité opalescente.

1. Make opalescent C2 formal

   To cause something to display a play of colors like an opal; to give an iridescent or milky appearance.

   • The artist used a special technique to opalize the glass surface.
   • Sunlight seemed to opalize the morning mist over the lake.
   • The jeweler can opalize certain gemstones to enhance their beauty.

   🇫🇷Rendre opalescent

2. Replace or convert into opal C2 formal

   In geology, to replace the original material of a fossil or mineral with opal, or to turn something into opal.

   • Over millions of years, the wood began to opalize, turning into a precious fossil.
   • The process can opalize bone fragments, preserving their structure.
   • Geologists study how silica-rich water can opalize organic remains.

   🇫🇷Opaliser

• opalized past participle
• opalized past simple
• opalizing present participle
• opalizes third person singular