solidify
The solidification of national identity may have reached a turning point after World War II.
The polls are actually a pretty important part of the general solidification of his position.
School funding was agreed to as part of the solidification of confederation the two regions.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Becoming and making stronger
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boil up
bolster
cement
character-building
deepen
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invigoration
jell
power (something) up
reinforcement
restoke
restrengthen
self-reinforcing
sharpen
solidify
soup
soup something up
wired

Examples of solidification

solidification
In particular, steady solidification fronts may exist when is larger than some critical value which depends on the parameters of the model.
If solidification is taking place, mass is conserved and momentum is lost.
By increasing the surface area a t which solidification can take place, the mushy layer enhances the release of both latent heat and rejected fluid.
For those cases the imposed flows redistribute solute in the melt, which modifies the stability boundary from the pure solidification problem.
Solidification will also be most rapid at the leading edge of the blob which will also contribute to the narrowing.
The fluid rheology is complicated yet further by the phase change of solidification.
The solidification of such a nationalist elite required the maintenance of an appropriate balance among the social orders.
The interaction between the solidification and convection that occurs when a melt is cooled from above is investigated in a series of three papers.
The rate of solidification may also be reduced by increasing the ambient temperature.
Previous modelling work on bubble desorption during solidification was developed in analogy to the models for these precipitating systems.
We show that this modification has little effect on the classical theories of solidification, in which heat transfer is solely by conduction.
The convection enhances the heat transfer from the melt and alters the rate of solidification.
A tabular lava flow emplaced rapidly on a rock substrate begins to cool from inwards-advancing upper and lower solidification fronts.
The results are interpreted in terms of the recast observed during the solidification phase of laser percussion drilling.
It was only at this time that a more general solidification of party positions on improvements issues emerged.
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