Definition of Solidify

1. Verb. Make solid or more solid; cause to solidify.

Category relationships: Natural Philosophy, Physics
Generic synonyms: Change Integrity
Specialized synonyms: Consolidate, Concrete
Derivative terms: Solid, Solidification, Solidifying

2. Verb. Become solid. "The metal solidified when it cooled"

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

solidarity
solidary
solidate
solidated
solidates
solider
solidest
solidi
solidifiable
solidification
solidifications
solidified
solidifier
solidifiers
solidifies
solidify (current term)
solidifying
solidish
solidism
solidisms
solidist
solidistic
solidists
solidities
solidity
solidlike
solidly
solidness
solidnesses
solids

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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