CONGEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does congeal mean? 

• CONGEAL (verb)
  The verb CONGEAL has 1 sense:

1. become gelatinous

  Familiarity information: CONGEAL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONGEAL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they congeal    ... he / she / it congeals   
Past simple: congealed   
Past participle: congealed   
-ing form: congealing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become gelatinous

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

congeal; jell; set

Context example:

the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme

Hypernyms (to "congeal" is one way to...):

solidify (become solid)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

congelation (the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with the undesired characterization of congealing, solidifying, thickening, curdling.

(Coagulation in Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

Besides, I was out of practice in talking to him: his reserve was again frozen over, and my frankness was congealed beneath it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret; and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His blood was too congealed to accelerate to the swift tidal flow of indignation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Holding his candle so that he could read the coffin plates, and so holding it that the sperm dropped in white patches which congealed as they touched the metal, he made assurance of Lucy's coffin.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I covered my head and arms with the skirt of my frock, and went out to walk in a part of the plantation which was quite sequestrated; but I found no pleasure in the silent trees, the falling fir-cones, the congealed relics of autumn, russet leaves, swept by past winds in heaps, and now stiffened together.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Gathering my mantle about me, and sheltering my hands in my muff, I did not feel the cold, though it froze keenly; as was attested by a sheet of ice covering the causeway, where a little brooklet, now congealed, had overflowed after a rapid thaw some days since.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)