to crystallize
21
5.8
- verb
- /ˈkrɪstəlˌaɪz/
- US
:
concretarse
- And gradually, as the night moved across the island, his confusion crystallized into a powerful feeling of disgust.
- began to crystallize
- crystallized around issues
- crystallized in opposition
But after a while you will, your understanding will crystallize.
- But after a while you will, your understanding will crystallize.
- The first is the further you get away from a time period, the more it crystallizes.
- Yet if you sell a property for a gain, you will crystallize taxes on that gain on sale.
- In many ways, The Winnie Stories crystallizes precisely why the voices of women and girls matter.
- To get that to crystallize was not thought to be really straightforward at all.
- It's this episode that like so clearly crystallizes the theme that these two people are essentially the same.
- So just frameworks that crystallize the learnings so that I can set forth for my next chapter with kind of a backpack full of lessons.
- And that ad is probably what kind of crystallizes exactly what what this feeling is.
- And anything can record, crystallize the the relationship between the, the creditor and the debtor.
- Like, you know who really crystallized it For me, it was Los, you know, Carlos from Flash.
- You're one of them in that it's kind of crystallize what I want to do with my life big picture wise, as we were saying.
Examples
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The idea was there, but it hadn't crystallized.
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However, it is in the 1960s and the 1970s that the cultural expressions crystallized into a definite identity.
Academic text (1991) -
Their ideas crystallize in the New Culture Movement.
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Writing the Dance Education Initiative Curriculum Guide helped crystallize our thinking and philosophy.
Academic text (1993) -
Just being there, watching the people, sort of crystallized things for me.
Fiction book (1990) -
All those provocative discussions helped crystallize a lot of my thinking.
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John, the illness just crystallized his thinking about his own presidency.
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For clarity's sake, we simplify each metaphor to crystallize key insights.
Academic text (2013) -
She crystallizes what we could call the aesthetics of the ugly.
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Her presentation helped to crystallize the team's goals for the project.
Synonyms
252
1.0
To make the shape or edges of something clear
37
3.7
To start to form and become clear, for example an idea or plan
3
5.1
Begin to make sense or to work well together
1
7.9
To make an idea or plan clear and specific
Antonyms
How Clear
55
4.4
248
3.3
- US
21
5.8
37
3.7
604
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crystallize comes from the old Greek word krystallos, which meant 'ice' and then 'crystal', giving the image of something clear and fixed. So, to crystallize an idea is to make it clear and definite 'like a crystal'.