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SOLIDIFY
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Irregular inflected form: solidified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they solidify ... he / she / it solidifies
Past simple: solidified
Past participle: solidified
-ing form: solidifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become solid
Example:
The metal solidified when it cooled
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "solidify" is one way to...):
change integrity (change in physical make-up)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "solidify"):
consolidate (form into a solid mass or whole)
congeal; jell; set (become gelatinous)
crystalise; crystalize; crystallize; effloresce (assume crystalline form; become crystallized)
freeze; freeze down; freeze out (change from a liquid to a solid when cold)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
solid (a three-dimensional shape)
solid (the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape)
solid (matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure)
solidification; solidifying (the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make solid or more solid; cause to solidify
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "solidify" is one way to...):
change integrity (change in physical make-up)
Cause:
solidify (become solid)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "solidify"):
consolidate (make or form into a solid or hardened mass)
concrete (form into a solid mass; coalesce)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
solid (the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape)
solidification; solidifying (the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization)
