solidification

Then I realized that the wine had frozen solid and had pushed the cork out by its expansion on solidification.

In great measure it achieved the purpose of national solidification for which it was mainly designed.

Every strike is one step onward in the solidification of a new political force,—a skirmish before the final battle.

He designed as a means of greater glory the complete solidification of his empire under his own supreme control.

Socialism, also, found in the Dreyfus affair, a pretext for the solidification of its forces.