Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make solid, compact, or hard.
- intransitive verb To make strong or united.
- intransitive verb To become solid.
- intransitive verb To become united.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To convert from a liquid or gaseous state to a solid state; make solid or compact: as, to
solidify hydrogen. - To become solid or compact: as, water solidifies into ice through cold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make solid or compact.
- intransitive verb To become solid; to harden.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
solid ; convert into a solid body. - verb transitive To
concentrate ;consolidate . - verb intransitive To become solid; to
freeze .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become solid
- verb make solid or more solid; cause to solidify
Etymologies
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Examples
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Poor Don, mugged and then forced to solidify is false identity.
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A big reason for not including Gears in Chrome for Mac in the interim, as we wait for HTML5 to solidify, is a technical hurdle.
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Becky and Justin solidify their friendship as the mayhem escalates to biological warfare, and they and their families face ethical and space-time dilemmas.
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Again, I would strongly disagree with that kind of conduct of American national security policy, particularly since it would legitimize Raul Castro in the position that he's trying to solidify, which is a furtherance of an oppressive, repressive regime, which has caused the people of Cuba to suffer in every imaginable way, including economically for many, many years.
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We met again in 2010 at the NYU campus in Florence that gave us our name to solidify the mission, agenda and goals of our coalition.
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"Things are starting to solidify, which is good," Woods said.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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- When new tech terms solidify, they stick on tight.
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- When new tech terms solidify, they stick on tight.
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- When new tech terms solidify, they stick on tight.
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- When new tech terms solidify, they stick on tight.
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