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💨 To make flow 🔄 To make flexible
to fluidize

to fluidize

1 7.4
To make a process or system work more smoothly and be more flexible
  • verb
  • /ˈfluːɪdaɪz/
  • US
: fluidificar
  • By using a special technique, the team can fluidize the material, allowing for smoother production flows.

Examples

  • A supporting bedding material such as sand particles is used, as the wood chips/pellets are hard to fluidize.

    Academic text (2018)

  • So we're wicking away, we're fluidizing that fugitive ink, we're pulling a vacuum, we're pulling it out of those channels.

  • The engineers decided to fluidize the system to enhance its efficiency during operation.

  • To improve the mixing process, they chose to fluidize the dry ingredients before adding the liquid.

Synonyms

to streamline
vsto fluidize
42 4.1

Make a process or system simpler and more efficient

prioritizes making systems more flexible rather than only more efficient
to smooth out
vsto fluidize
33 3.4

Make a process or problem easier by removing difficulties

focuses on reducing rigidity to allow ongoing adaptability instead of single fixes
to liberalize
vsto fluidize
11 6.3

To make laws or rules less strict to allow more freedom

applies more generally to processes to increase flexibility not only legal rules

Antonyms

to rigidify
1 8.2

To make something stiff and unable to bend or change

How Flexible

to reform
171 3.7
to streamline
42 4.1
to fluidize
  • US
1 7.4
to soften
98 3.1
to loosen
20 3.3

Surface Forms

fluidize infinitive
fluidized past
fluidized past participle
fluidizing present participle
fluidizes third person singular

Morphology

fluidize = fluid (semi-transparent) = fluid + ize

Formed from 'fluid' + '-ize' but the listed sense is a metaphorical extension to organizational/process flexibility, so the meaning is not strictly literal for learners.

Etymology

Fluidize comes from fluid meaning 'flow' and the suffix -ize meaning 'make'. So to fluidize a process or system is to make it move or change more easily, like smoothing work and communication so things 'flow' better.