Definition of "crystalize" [crystalize]

• Variant of crystallize. (verb)

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• "Beyond fundraising, Rachel credits the experience and dedication of her team with helping the nascent project crystalize."
• "Process can emerge and vanish, concept can crystalize, shatter, and reform."
• "Northrop, however, managed to crystalize three digestive enzymes, pepsin, trypsin and chymotrypsin, and by painstaking experiments shown them to be pure proteins."