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- verb Present participle of
rigidify .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of becoming stiff or rigid
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Examples
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He beckons to him since he can no longer raise his rigidifying body.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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A certain strain of feminist theory has picked up on this line of criticism, identifying the peremptory and rigidifying discourse of rights with the confrontational masculine
Rights Wenar, Leif 2007
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The Groups Areas Act furthered this concept by rigidifying urban segregation and excluding black traders from central business districts.
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It added, "... the constitution must avoid rigidifying ethnic groupings as such and making them the building blocks of the form of government."
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Religion, rather than rigidifying our political ideologies and psychological orientations, ought to be destabilizing our certainties, as certainty is too often an enemy of compassion.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rabbi Irwin Kula 2010
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The light-gray tailgate is made completely from lightweight but highly robust Lexan, allowing a view of the aluminum structure that makes up the rigidifying frame, for example.
Autoblog 2009
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The light-gray tailgate is made completely from lightweight but highly robust Lexan, allowing a view of the aluminum structure that makes up the rigidifying frame, for example.
AutoblogGreen 2009
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Maximal theorists, however, may add rigidifying devices (such as
Again 2009
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