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US
/səˈɫɪdəˌfaɪ/
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[ UK /səlˈɪdɪfˌaɪ/ ]
[ UK /səlˈɪdɪfˌaɪ/ ]
VERB
- make solid or more solid; cause to solidify
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become solid
The metal solidified when it cooled
How To Use solidify In A Sentence
- Without these sagacities, the brickwork of the tambour, in addition to taking a very long time so that the concrete could dry up and solidify, would surely have been too heavy to support the dome.
- As the various ingredients begin to solidify, their surface properties change, weakening the emulsion so that the fat droplets can coalesce still further during the freezing phase.
- A brief summary of the meeting's minutes are as follows: we're fairly confident that we've seen willets in the past and there's no way Sara is going to drive out to Jamaica Bay just to solidify a sandpiper sighting.
- The tree seemed to dribble out of its branches like candlewax, and solidify into the spreading trunk and gorged roots. Wildwood
- After the third sterilisation cool the tubes to 42°C., and add to each 3 c.c. of sterile hydrocele fluid, ascitic fluid, or pleuritic effusion (previously sterilised, if necessary, by the fractional method); allow the tubes to solidify in a sloping position. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
- In addition, putting Kirk Scrafford in as a starter at tackle will solidify the line.
- The more likely explanation is that developmental changes occurred that involved greater solidifying of romantic relationships, making stable monogamy more possible.
- Therefore, in exceptional cases, alloys with less than 2% C can solidify with a eutectic structure and therefore still belong to the family of cast iron.
- He felt that he was solidifying—a pupa becoming a wasp. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
- A metal-polymer coating can heal its own scratches by liquefying when exposed to UV and then resolidifying.