VULCANIZE Synonyms

• make strong or stronger

• enclose by or as if by a fortification

• prepare oneself for a military confrontation

• add nutrients to

• add alcohol to (beverages)

• become hard or harder

• make hard or harder

• harden by reheating and cooling in oil

• make healthy

• cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

• emotionally hardened

• become fixed or established

• make hard or harder

• become hard or harder

• cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

• cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright

• change into stone

• make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

• make solid or more solid; cause to solidify

• become solid

• become stiff or stiffer

• make stiff or stiffer

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• make strong or stronger

• gain strength

• give a healthy elasticity to

• a sudden outburst of anger

• a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

• a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger

• the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking

• bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling

• harden by reheating and cooling in oil

• adjust the pitch (of pianos)

• make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else

• change by restraining or moderating

• make tough or tougher

• undergo vulcanization

• subject to vulcanization