Solidify

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Solidify \So*lid"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Solidified}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Solidifying}.] [Solid + -fy: cf. F. solidifier.]
     To make solid or compact.
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           Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem. --H.


                                                    Spencer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Solidify \So*lid"i*fy\, v. i.
     To become solid; to harden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  solidify
       v 1: make solid or more solid; cause to solidify
       2: become solid; "The metal solidified when it cooled"
       [also: {solidified}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "solidify":
     abbreviate, add, adhere, agglomerate, amalgamate, assimilate,
     blend, body forth, bunch, cake, candy, circumscribe, clasp, cleave,
     clinch, cling, cling to, clot, cluster, coagulate, coalesce,
     coarct, cohere, combine, come together, compact, compound,
     compress, comprise, concentrate, concrete, concretize, condense,
     congeal, congest, conglomerate, connect, consolidate, constrict,
     constringe, contract, cram, cramp, crowd, crystallize, curtail,
     decrease, densen, densify, draw, draw in, draw together, dry,
     embody, embrace, encompass, entify, flux, freeze, freeze to, fuse,
     gel, granulate, grasp, grow together, hang on, hang together,
     harden, hold, hold on, hold together, hug, hypostatize, incarnate,
     include, incorporate, indurate, inspissate, integrate, interblend,
     interfuse, jam, jell, join, knit, lend substance to, lump together,
     make one, mass, materialize, meld, melt into one, merge, mix,
     narrow, persist, press, pucker, pucker up, pull together, purse,
     put together, ram down, reduce, reembody, reify, roll into one,
     set, shade into, shorten, squeeze, stay, stay put, stick,
     stick together, strangle, strangulate, sublime, syncretize,
     syndicate, synthesize, take a set, take hold of, thicken, unify,
     unite, wrinkle