Definition of "rigidify" []

• To become or cause to become rigid. (verb-transitive)

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• "He was convinced that the Cold War had already helped rigidify the capitalist system by bureaucratizing a large part of production for non-productive uses."
• "But at what point does that self-care rigidify into something akin to narcissism with a spiritual cast?"
• "In the second stage, when dissonances and failing function begin to appear, the initial principles rigidify."