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What is the verb for base?

What's the verb for base? Here's the word you're looking for.

based
base
  1. (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
  2. (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
  3. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He would base his conclusions on evidence gathered through routine detective work.”
      “The new startup will base itself in San Francisco.”
basify
  1. (chemistry) To make more basic (less acidic)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “By adding baking soda to the mixture, we can basify the solution and reduce its acidity.”
      “You may need to redissolve in hot water, basify to 9 or 10, add a non-polar solvent, and extract the solvent layer weekly for 3 weeks.”
      “Concentrated ammonium solution was added drop wise to basify the extract until the precipitation was completed and the whole solution was allowed to settle.”
basifies
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of basify
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bases
baseth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of base
basified
  1. simple past tense and past participle of basify
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  3. Examples:
    1. “After removal of the Zinc by filtration, the filtrate was basified with concentrated NaOH and extracted with three 50-ml portions of ether.”
basifying
  1. present participle of basify
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basing
  1. present participle of base
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Rather, I am a fierce advocate of basing American foreign policy on democratic principles.”
      “This becomes a sort of folkloric knowledge, and it's what many people will be basing their impressions of the Smith case upon.”
      “Woodcock analyses the fictiveness of fairy stories in Spenser's world, basing his approach on recent studies of the ontology of witches.”
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