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Grammar : Verb
Spell : suh-lid-uh-fahy
Phonetic Transcription : səˈlɪd əˌfaɪ



Definition of solidify

Origin :
  • 1799 (transitive); 1837 (intransitive), from French solidifier, from Old French solide (see solid (adj.)) + -fier (see -fy). Related: Solidified; solidifying.
  • verb harden
Example sentences :
  • Add the gelatine, which by this time should be commencing to solidify.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • The means whereby Pitt sought to solidify them are open to question.
  • Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose
  • She respects Frank Doughton, and every day that passes will solidify that respect.
  • Extract from : « The Secret House » by Edgar Wallace
  • The disintegrated mass of rabbits commenced, as it were, to solidify, to coagulate.
  • Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris
  • It is made by boiling the shrub and allowing the extract to solidify.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 3 » by Various
  • Now was the chance, he decided, to solidify himself with the Judsons.
  • Extract from : « Mountain » by Clement Wood
  • It has never been frozen; when cooled to -166 Fahr., it acquired the consistence of castor oil, but did not solidify.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • It served merely to solidify that public opinion which was in favor of the improvement.
  • Extract from : « Janice Day » by Helen Beecher Long
  • We have let some interval pass inactive, to confirm and solidify our hate.
  • Extract from : « Pierre; or The Ambiguities » by Herman Melville
  • You cannot see any reason why water should solidify in the cold.
  • Extract from : « A Critical History of Greek Philosophy » by W. T. Stace

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