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Solidify   /səlˈɪdəfˌaɪ/   Listen
Solidify

verb
(past & past part. solidified; pres. part. solidifying)
1.
Make solid or more solid; cause to solidify.
2.
Become solid.



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"Solidify" Quotes from Famous Books



... habitual drunkard; he will not become anything "habitual." But with another type of man habit is indeed second nature. Instead of the permanent fluidity of my particular case, such people are continually tending to solidify and harden. Their memories set, their opinions set, their methods of expression set, their delights recur and recur, they convert initiative into mechanical habit day by day. Let them taste any pleasure and each time they taste it they deepen a need. At last their habits ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
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... disadvantage of being hygroscopic, that is, of readily absorbing moisture. This disadvantage is overcome in many cases by saturating the coil after it is wound in some melted insulating compound, such as wax or varnish or asphaltum, which will solidify on cooling. Where the coils are to be so saturated the best practice is to place them in a vacuum chamber and exhaust the air, after which the hot insulating compound is admitted and is thus drawn into the innermost ...
— Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 - A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. • Kempster Miller
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... only a beginning. It served merely to solidify that public opinion which was in favor of the improvement. At once opposition raised its head, and during the fortnight preceding the town meeting, argument, pro and con, was ...
— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long
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... object of humanity, Moses would have bequeathed to you the law of fluxions; Jesus Christ would have lightened the darkness of your sciences; his apostles would have told you whence come those vast trains of gas and melted metals, attached to cores which revolve and solidify as they dart through ether, or violently enter some system and combine with a star, jostling and displacing it by the shock, or destroying it by the infiltration of their deadly gases; Saint Paul, instead of telling you to live in God, ...
— Seraphita • Honore de Balzac
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Words linked to "Solidify" :   change integrity, jell, freeze out, freeze down, congeal, freeze, crystallize, crystalise, set, physics, solid, natural philosophy, consolidate, solidification, effloresce, crystalize, concrete


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