solidify
/səˈlɪdɪfʌɪ
/verb (solidifies, solidifying, solidified)
1Make or become hard or solid: [no object]: the magma slowly solidifies and forms crystals...
- They also contain ingredients that make them stay in the stomach longer, it solidifies and makes it harder for the milk to digest.
- Slowly the molten rock solidified, and fissures appeared, while the water was still hot and fluid.
- In some instances, stationary magmas solidify in situ.
Synonyms
harden, go hard, set, freeze, ice over/up, gel, thicken, stiffen, congeal, clot, coagulate, curdle, cake, dry, bake, consolidate, ossify, fossilize, petrify
rare gelatinize
1.1 [with object] Make stronger; reinforce: social and political pressures helped to solidify national identities...
- Before the advent of roads or railways, the sheer difficulty in traversing Peru's geography was one of the greatest obstacles to solidifying a national identity.
- It is this group which specifically prefers Alberta locations, thus reinforcing the duality and solidifying the philosophical divide.
- Active steps to embrace this reality and prepare for it will solidify the National Guard's importance in that role.
Derivatives
solidification
/ noun ...- The remaining land has been further treated by solidification, bio-remediation and indirect thermal desorption.
- Rich feasts contain a lot of protein, fat and energy, which speed the solidification of the fat in blood.
- Despite the steel strike, the rest of the decade was marked by the solidification of a relatively peaceful collective bargaining system between well-entrenched unions and large industrial corporations.
solidifier
- Test results show that solidifiers require between 16% and 200% of agent by weight compared to the oil.
- When you add a solidifier to the blood or body fluids, like to a suction canister, it's not a treatment.
- When the excess solid solidifiers are driven out of solution, a volume increase occurs.