rigidify

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rigidify
Verb
  • This was crystallized in 2021 with the formal launch of SpaceTime and the addition of cofounder Axel Toivonen, a global logistics and hardware specialist.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • What had been seen as a largely circumstantial case was suddenly crystallizing with every admission that Kohberger made to the judge on Wednesday.
    Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 4 July 2025
Verb
  • His worldview has ossified, and there is perhaps understandably a sense that his country has left him behind.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 2 May 2025
  • The final age is the modern one, with the world now mostly settled and divided up, its borders more sharply defined and ossified.
    Yussef Cole, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • However, if there are plaques that have not yet calcified, they will not be detected.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
  • The terrain of the narrator’s childhood seems to have calcified into mythology.
    Ottessa Moshfegh, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • The whole squad has put up an impressive 18 scores in four tourney matches, though competition now stiffens for single elimination.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • My forehead stiffened and went numb, like it was made of concrete that had suddenly set.
    Sarah Miller, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • So don’t go around being petrified of having your esophagus rupture someday.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Nearly every day brings a fresh breach of what were once thought to be the rules, moves that have thrilled his insurgent supporters and petrified his nervous opponents.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Within hours the pool would coagulate into electric-blue slush, like a gas station Slurpee.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
  • That familiar lump of expectation coagulated in my stomach and throat.
    Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Note: if the mixture thickens more than desired over time, add a little water or beef broth.
    Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 10 July 2025
  • It gets topped with crispy fries smothered in cheddar cheese curds and our homemade lobster gravy, which is made by concentrating our shellfish stock, thickening it with a roux, and fortifying it with our lobster bisque.
    Aly Walansky, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
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“Rigidify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rigidify. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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