1. converts or becomes converted into glass or a glass-like substance, typically through heating
Usage: technical; third person singular present tense

Examples

• The intense heat vitrifies the clay into a ceramic glaze.
• Sand vitrifies when exposed to extremely high temperatures.
• The furnace vitrifies the raw materials into glass bottles.
• Lightning sometimes vitrifies sand where it strikes the ground.
• The kiln vitrifies the pottery surface during the final firing.
• Nuclear testing vitrifies desert sand into green glass formations.