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solidified

solidified

3.8
It becomes hard when it cools from a liquid or gas
  • adjective
  • /səˈlɪdɪfaɪd/
translation icon : solidificado
  • The gel has solidified into a firm mass, making it easy to slice.

I am I'm the solidified gel of evil.

Examples

  • It tastes like solidified strawberry ice cream in a kind of chocolatey coating, if that makes any sense.

  • OK, so it's solidified and this wants to have a lower volume, lower volume.

  • I have rough ideas about where they will go, but I had do not have a solidified idea about where they go.

  • After cooling, the lava solidified into a hard rock formation.

  • When the mixture cooled down, it solidified and took on a rigid shape.

Synonyms

solid
vssolidified
325 1.0

Firm and hard so it keeps its shape, not liquid

refers to the process of changing into that state rather than the state
coagulated
vssolidified
  • Specialized
7.0

A liquid that becomes thick or solid

is broader, meaning it becomes firm from liquid or gas
congealed
vssolidified
5.8

A liquid or soft thing that becomes thick and partly solid as it cools

is the general process of turning firm from a liquid or soft form
hardened
vssolidified
4.1

Made solid by heating, drying, or other treatment

is about becoming firm from a liquid or gas rather than being made
curdled
vssolidified
5.3

Turned from a smooth liquid into thick lumps, like sour milk

is more general, not limited to souring or specific food reactions
crystallized
vssolidified
  • Specialized
4.9

A thing that has a regular repeating shape like salt or diamond

is the broader change into a firm mass, not making ordered internal shapes

Antonyms

liquid
259 1.0

Flowing and not solid, like water when warm

How Solid

solidified
3.8
runny
34 1.0
liquid
324 1.0

Surface Forms

solidified positive

Morphology

solidified = solidify (transparent) = solid + ify + ed

Formed by adding regular past-participial/adjectival '-ed' to the verb 'solidify' (itself transparently derived from 'solid' + '-ify'), so the meaning is directly recoverable from the base.

Etymology

Solidified comes from the simple word solid, which means 'firm' or 'whole'. It literally means 'made firm', like melted metal becoming a hard block or an opinion becoming fixed, so today it describes something that has turned into a solid or become firm and unchanging.