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Main Entry: ossify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become hard from aging

Synonyms:

congeal, fossilize, freeze, harden, indurate, petrify, solidify, stiffen, thicken, turn to bone

Antonyms:

melt, soften
Main Entry: harden
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make or become solid

Synonyms:

amalgamate, anneal, bake, brace, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, cement, close, clot, coagulate, compact, congeal, consolidate, contract, crystallize, curdle, densify, dry, firm, fix, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gird, indurate, jell, nerve, ossify, petrify, precipitate, press, reinforce, set, settle, solidify, starch, steel, stiffen, strengthen, temper, thicken, toughen, vitrify

Antonyms:

liquefy, melt, soften
Main Entry: stabilize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make or keep in steady state; make resistant to change

Synonyms:

balance, ballast, bolt, brace, buttress, counterbalance, counterpoise, equalize, fasten, firm, firm up, fix, freeze*, maintain, ossify, poise, preserve, prop, secure, set, settle, stabilitate, steady, stiffen, support, sustain, uphold

Antonyms:

change, shake, vary, weaken, wobble
Main Entry: stiffen
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make or become harder

Synonyms:

anneal, benumb, brace, cake, candy, cement, chill, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, crystallize, curdle, firm, fix, freeze, gel, harden, inflate, inspissate, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, precipitate, prop, reinforce, set, solidify, stabilize, starch, steady, strengthen, tauten, tense, thicken

Antonyms:

liquefy, loosen, melt
Main Entry: thicken
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: set; make more dense

Synonyms:

add, buttress, cake, clabber, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, curdle, deepen, enlarge, expand, freeze, gel, grow thick, harden, inspissate, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, reinforce, solidify, stiffen, swell, widen

Antonyms:

dilute, liquefy, melt, thin, water down
Main Entry: indurate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: harden

Synonyms:

acclimate, acclimatize, amalgamate, anneal, bake, brace, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, caseharden, cement, close, clot, coagulate, compact, concrete, congeal, consolidate, contract, crystallize, curdle, densify, dry, firm, fix*, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gird, jell, nerve, ossify, petrify, precipitate, press, reinforce, season, set, settle, solidify, starch, steel, stiffen, strengthen, temper, thicken, toughen, vitrify
Main Entry: inspissate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: thicken

Synonyms:

add, buttress, cake, clabber, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, curdle, deepen, enlarge, expand, freeze, gel, grow thick, harden, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, reinforce, solidify, stiffen, swell, widen
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