solidify

From French solidifier.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈlɪdɪˌfaɪ/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /səˈlɪdəˌfaɪ/, [səˈlɪɾəˌfaɪ]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /səˈlɪdəˌfɑɪ/, [səˈlɪɾəˌfɑɪ], /səˈlɪdˌfɑɪ/, [səˈlɪɾˌfɑɪ]

solidify (third-person singular simple present solidifies, present participle solidifying, simple past and past participle solidified)

1. (transitive) To make solid; convert into a solid body.
2. (transitive) To concentrate; consolidate, reinforce.
   • 2023 August 23, Pip Dunn, “The last bastion of the HST 'Castles'”, in RAIL, number 990, page 49:

     Emerging from Kennaway Tunnel, the train sweeps to the right, affording views of the recent work to solidify the railway here.

3. (intransitive) To become solid; to freeze, set.
4. (grammar, transitive) To transform an open compound into a closed compound (solid compound).

• liquefy

• “solidify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.