Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
(intransitive) To be converted into soap.
Detail of Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), John Singer Sargent, 1884, showing saponification in the black dress.
(transitive, chemistry) To hydrolyze (an ester) using an alkali.
Saponification part I
Saponification part II