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Definition of Solidify
1. Verb. Make solid or more solid; cause to solidify.
Generic synonyms: Change Integrity
Specialized synonyms: Consolidate, Concrete
Derivative terms: Solid, Solidification, Solidifying
2. Verb. Become solid. "The metal solidified when it cooled"
Generic synonyms: Change Integrity
Specialized synonyms: Consolidate, Congeal, Jell, Set, Crystalise, Crystalize, Crystallize, Effloresce, Freeze, Freeze Down, Freeze Out
Derivative terms: Solid, Solid, Solid, Solidification, Solidifying
Definition of Solidify
1. v. t. To make solid or compact.
2. v. i. To become solid; to harden.
Definition of Solidify
1. Verb. (transitive) To make solid; convert into a solid body. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To concentrate; consolidate. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To become solid; to freeze. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Solidify
1. to make solid [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: solid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solidify
Literary usage of Solidify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"He concludes that if, under proper thermometric conditions, pressure alone can
solidify a liquid, it can also, under proper solutional condition?, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"is soluble in alcohol and in ether, and separates from these solutions on
evaporation in oily drops which solidify in the crystalline form after some time ..."
3. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"Thus a solution which will no longer solidify is obtained, and with it the retort
is supplied, as with oil in the former case. When the gas has parted with ..."
4. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1894)
"... be prevented by good mortar, if time be allowed it to solidify properly, before
the centers are ..."
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