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rigidifying

rigidifying

8.6
A change that makes something stiff and hard so it cannot bend
  • noun
translation icon : rigidificación
  • During the winter, the rigidifying cold made it difficult for plants to survive outside.

Examples

  • At the microscopic level though, Lignan is important for rigidifying, rigidifying individual cells.

  • The rigidifying process of the glue helps to ensure that the pieces stay together permanently.

  • I still think it needs some real rigidifying and I aim to add that.

  • A stiffening, rigidifying mesmerizing man.

    Watch Out (2008)

  • Just as philosophers distanced materialism from idealism, so too they have distanced Japanese aesthetics from idealism, but this has caused a conceptual rigidifying of both aesthetic traditions.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The artist loved to explore the rigidifying effects of different materials in her sculptures.

Synonyms

stiffening
vsrigidifying
1 4.9

Something becomes hard and less flexible, for example in joints or fabric

is the process-focused term rather than the action phrasing
hardening
vsrigidifying
1 4.6

A change in a material when it becomes more solid

describes becoming stiff or rigid rather than a broader material change
rigidification
vsrigidifying
9.1

A process in which a material becomes stiff and hard to bend

focuses only on the becoming process, not on causing stiffness

Antonyms

flexibility
37 3.0

Ability to bend or change shape without breaking

softening
8 2.7

The process of becoming softer or less firm

How Stiff

hardening
1 4.6
rigidifying
8.6
stiffening
1 4.9

Surface Forms

rigidifying singular
rigidifyings plural

Morphology

rigidifying = rigidify (transparent) = rigid + ify + ing

Built regularly via 'rigid' + the verb-forming suffix '-ify' to make 'rigidify', then '-ing' forms the noun/gerund; the meaning is compositional and predictable.

Etymology

Rigidifying comes from rigid meaning 'stiff' and the verb part -ify meaning 'to make', so it says 'making stiff'. Rigidifying is the process of becoming hard or stiff, like water turning to ice.