SOLIDIFY (solidified)

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Irregular inflected form: solidified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does solidify mean? 

• SOLIDIFY (verb)
  The verb SOLIDIFY has 2 senses:

1. make solid or more solid; cause to solidify

2. become solid

  Familiarity information: SOLIDIFY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLIDIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they solidify    ... he / she / it solidifies   
Past simple: solidified   
Past participle: solidified   
-ing form: solidifying   

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become solid

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The metal solidified when it cooled

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)

 Context examples 

A yellow, oily liquid nitrosamine that solidifies at cold temperatures and emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides when heated to decomposition.

(Nitrosonornicotine, NCI Thesaurus)

For instance, two earlier patient studies suggested that ripples may be important for solidifying memories during sleep.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

In a study, researchers found that our brains may solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)

An ideal injectable bandage should solidify after injection in the wound area and promote a natural clotting cascade.

(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Fear responses returned in animals if the training began more than 6 hours after re-exposure, when the memory had apparently already solidified.

(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)

Issue associated with the undesired characterization of congealing, solidifying, thickening, curdling.

(Coagulation in Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

A new study by University of Wyoming researchers suggests scientists can go back to the past to study present-day solidified magma chambers where the erosion has removed overlying rock, exposing granite underpinnings.

(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)

Designed as a fluid at room temperature that solidifies at body temperature, these new biomaterials form a stable, porous scaffold when injected that rapidly integrates into the surrounding tissue with minimal inflammation and promotes the formation of blood vessels.

(Biomaterial Artificial Protein Helps Heal Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Once released, the PAR starts mopping up calcium into larger droplets which stick onto the components in artery walls that give the artery its elasticity, where they form ordered crystals and solidify, hardening the arteries.

(Cause of hardening of the arteries – and potential treatment – identified, University of Cambridge)

Second, by looking at the brain waves, Dr. Bönstrup found activity patterns that suggested the volunteers’ brains were consolidating, or solidifying, memories during the rest periods.

(Brains may use short rest periods to strengthen memories, National Institutes of Health)