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# solidify

«solidify» in Mova's school dictionary: **to become solid, or to make something become solid…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (solidify, solidifies, solidified, solidifying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To solidify is to become solid, or to make something become solid, usually when a liquid cools or freezes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/#m1)

2) To solidify a plan, friendship or idea is to make it firmer and more certain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on states of matter it is the change from liquid to solid (freezing): water solidifies into ice at 0 °C, lava solidifies into rock, melted chocolate solidifies in the fridge. It is the opposite of melting. Phrases: «solidify into», «allow to solidify», «solidify a friendship».

### examples

- Water solidifies into ice at 0 °C. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/#x1)
- When lava cools, it solidifies into rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/#x2)
- Put the jelly in the fridge to solidify. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/#x3)
- The melted wax solidified into a candle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/#x4)
- Candle wax melts when hot and solidifies when it cools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/#x5)
- Working on the project together solidified their friendship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/#x6)
- Melted chocolate solidifies as it cools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/#x7)

### note

Spelling: solidifies, solidified (y changes to i). Noun: solidification. Opposite: melt. Freezing is solidifying, even for hot things like metal or lava, which «freeze» at high temperatures.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «solidify» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/solidify/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.