CRYSTALLIZE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CRYSTALLIZE?

Need another word that means the same as “crystallize”? Find 21 synonyms and 30 related words for “crystallize” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Crystallize” are: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out, effloresce, form crystals, solidify, harden, become clear, become definite, take shape, emerge, form, materialize

Crystallize as a Verb

Definitions of "Crystallize" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “crystallize” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Cause to take on a definite and clear shape.
• Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.
• Convert or be converted from a floating charge into a fixed charge.
• Assume crystalline form; become crystallized.
• Form or cause to form crystals.
• Make or become definite and clear.
• Cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form.

Synonyms of "Crystallize" as a verb (21 Words)

become clear	Enhance the appearance of.
become definite	Undergo a change or development.
clear	With reference to a cheque pass through a clearing house so that the money goes into the payee s account. Clear a debt.
clear up	Clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
crystalise	Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.
crystalize	Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.
crystallise	Cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form.
effloresce	Come into or as if into flower. Simple concepts that effloresce into testable conclusions.
elucidate	Make clear and (more) comprehensible. In what follows I shall try to elucidate what I believe the problems to be.
emerge	Come up to the surface of or rise. It emerged that the PM and the Chancellor are still at loggerheads.
enlighten	Give (someone) spiritual knowledge or insight. Christopher had not enlightened Francis as to their relationship.
form	Give shape or form to. His features formed into a smile of pleasure.
form crystals	Develop into a distinctive entity.
harden	Harden by reheating and cooling in oil. The wax hardened.
illuminate	Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. Placing the events of the 1930s in a broader historical context helps to illuminate their significance.
materialize	(of a ghost, spirit, or similar entity) appear in bodily form. The train failed to materialize.
shed light on	Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers.
solidify	Make solid or more solid cause to solidify. Social and political pressures helped to solidify national identities.
sort out	Examine in order to test suitability.
straighten out	Make straight or straighter.
take shape	Serve oneself to, or consume regularly.

Usage Examples of "Crystallize" as a verb

• Thermal processing is required in order to crystallize the ink.
• Vague feelings of unrest crystallized into something more concrete.
• Writing can help to crystallize your thoughts.
• No deduction is given for contingent liabilities until they crystallize.
• The sale may not crystallize the charge.
• When most liquids freeze they crystallize.
• He tried to crystallize his thoughts.
• Crystallize minerals.

Associations of "Crystallize" (30 Words)

chill	Chilly. Heat exhaustion symptoms include nausea chills dizziness and dehydration.
clarify	Make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating. The report managed to clarify the government s position.
condense	Compress or concentrate. Congress condensed the three year plan into a six month plan.
coolant	A fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another. The atomic reactor used a gas coolant.
cryogenic	Relating to or involving the branch of physics that deals with the production and effects of very low temperatures. A body being prepared for cryogenic preservation.
crystal	Clear and transparent like crystal. Ice crystals formed where his breath froze.
edify	Instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually. Rachel had edified their childhood with frequent readings from Belloc.
elucidate	Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. Work such as theirs will help to elucidate this matter.
enlighten	Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. The Holy Spirit enlightened the Apostles.
explicate	Analyse and develop (an idea or principle) in detail. These essays seek to explicate and contextualize Kristeva s writings.
freeze	Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it. A nuclear freeze.
frost	Damage by frost. It is not unusual for buds to be nipped by frost.
gelid	Icy; extremely cold. Gelid waters of the North Atlantic.
glacial	A glacial period. His glacial blue eyes.
ice	A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating. She scraped the ice off the windscreen.
icecap	A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak.
icicle	Ice resembling a pendent spear, formed by the freezing of dripping water.
jadeite	A hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma.
mineral	Relating to minerals. Mineral ingredients such as zinc oxide.
molten	(especially of materials with a high melting point, such as metal and glass) liquefied by heat. A mass of molten rock.
polar	A variable binary star which emits strongly polarized light one component being a strongly magnetic white dwarf. A polar principal.
quartz	A hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form present in most rocks especially sandstone and granite yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities.
realize	Be sold for. His worst fears have been realized.
refrigerant	A substance used for refrigeration. One of the refrigerant pipes had burst.
refrigerate	Preserve by chilling. Many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil.
rime	Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds. He does not brush away the frost that rimes his beard.
snow	Falls of snow. All that they could pick up on their screens was snow.
solidify	Make solid or more solid cause to solidify. Social and political pressures helped to solidify national identities.
spiritually	In a way that relates to or affects the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. A spiritually uplifting film.
unify	Make or become united, uniform, or whole. The government hoped to centralize and unify the nation.