to rigidify
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8.2
- verb
- /rɪˈdʒɪdəˌfaɪ/
:
rigidificar
- Excessive rules can rigidify a team's creative process and limit innovation.
Examples
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The heat will make the plastic rigidify and hold its shape.
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It had rigidified her life as if she had been dipped in concrete.
Fiction book (1994) -
My penis rigidifies.
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When it had rigidified, they cut a hatch into it and mounted it atop the airlock module.
Fiction book (1990) -
This study exemplified the importance of rigidifying inhibitor pharmacophores in terms of conferring favorable potency and pharmacokinetic properties.
Blog text (19) -
"Truth in art," Burke explains, is not about the revelation of scientific knowledge, but rather about "the exercise of human propriety, the formulation of symbols which rigidify our sense of poise and rhythm" (Counter-Statement 42).
Academic text (2013) -
The cold water caused the gelatin to rigidify into a firm shape.
Synonyms
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2.6
Make something hard or solid
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3.7
To make or become hard and less able to bend
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4.0
Make or become tighter and more solid
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9.5
Become fixed or make something fixed and refuse to change
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6.7
To make something unable to change by keeping it in old ways
To make someone emotionally hard and less able to feel or care
Antonyms
How Rigid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rigidify breaks into rigid 'stiff' and the ending -ify 'make'. So, to rigidify is to make something stiff or fixed, whether in the body or in a person's attitude.