All firming synonyms

verb firming

• steady — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
• maintain — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
• sustain — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
• balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
• stabilize — to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
• preserve — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
• secure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
• counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
• counterpoise — a force, influence, etc, that counterbalances another
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• poise — a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in which a stress of one dyne per square centimeter is required to maintain a difference of velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes in the fluid that lie in the direction of flow and are separated by a distance of one centimeter. Symbol: P.
• bolt — A bolt is a long metal object which screws into a nut and is used to fasten things together.
• uphold — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
• fasten — to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
• prop — to support, or prevent from falling, with or as if with a prop (often followed by up): to prop an old fence; to prop up an unpopular government.
• ballast — Ballast is any substance that is used in ships or hot-air balloons to make them heavier and more stable. Ballast usually consists of water, sand, or iron.
• inspissate — Thicken or congeal.
• condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
• tauten — make taut
• inflate — deflate
• tense — in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung; taut: a tense person.
• chill — When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
• benumb — to make numb or powerless; deaden physical feeling in, as by cold
• jelly — a food preparation of a soft, elastic consistency due to the presence of gelatin, pectin, etc., especially fruit juice boiled down with sugar and used as a sweet spread for bread and toast, as a filling for cakes or doughnuts, etc.
• candy — Candy is sweet foods such as toffees or chocolate.
• harden — to make hard or harder: to harden steel.
• gel — Physical Chemistry. a semirigid colloidal dispersion of a solid with a liquid or gas, as jelly, glue, etc.
• acclimatize — When you acclimatize or are acclimatized to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
• season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
• acclimate — When you acclimate or are acclimated to a new situation, place, or climate, you become used to it.
• concrete — Concrete is a substance used for building which is made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, and water.
• consolidate — If you consolidate something that you have, for example power or success, you strengthen it so that it becomes more effective or secure.
• nerve — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
• set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• buttress — Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
• thicken — make thicker
• strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
• stiffen — to make stiff.
• freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
• amalgamate — When two or more things, especially organizations, amalgamate or are amalgamated, they become one large thing.
• reinforce — to strengthen with some added piece, support, or material: to reinforce a wall.
• fortify — to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works.
• close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
• toughen — reinforce, strengthen
• petrify — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
• jell — to congeal; become jellylike in consistency.
• compact — Compact things are small or take up very little space. You use this word when you think this is a good quality.
• bake — If you bake, you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies, or other food which is cooked in the oven.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• callous — A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings.