SOLIDIFY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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