solidify
verb🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪ/
🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they solidify | 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪ/ 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪ/ |
| he / she / it solidifies | 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪz/ 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪz/ |
| past simple solidified | 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪd/ 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪd/ |
| past participle solidified | 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪd/ 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪd/ |
| -ing form solidifying | 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪɪŋ/ 🔊/səˈlɪdɪfaɪɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] solidify (into something) | solidify (something)
to become solid; to make something solid （使）凝固，变硬，变得结实 The mixture will solidify into toffee. 这种混合物凝固后就成了太妃糖。 🔊🔊 The paint had solidified in the tray. 油漆在托盘中固化了。 solidified lava 固结熔岩
- [intransitive, transitive] (formal)
(of ideas, etc. 观念等 to become or to make something become more definite and less likely to change （使）变得坚定，变得稳固，巩固