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congeal

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Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
 : 
con=geal

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb congeal has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

congealv. t. [F. congeler, L. congelare, -gelatumn; con- + gelare to freeze, gelu frost. See Gelid.].
  •  To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.  [1913 Webster]
    "A vapory deluge lies to snow congealed."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.  [1913 Webster]
    "As if with horror to congeal his blood."  [1913 Webster]
congealv. i. 
     To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.  [1913 Webster]
    "Lest zeal, now melted . . .
    Cool and congeal again to what it was.
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

congeal, v.tr. & intr.
1 make or become semi-solid by cooling.
2 (of blood etc.) coagulate.

Derivative
congealable adj. congealment n.
Etymology
ME f. OF congeler f. L congelare (as com-, gelare f. gelu frost)

THESAURUS

congeal

adhere, agglomerate, blast, blast-freeze, blight, bunch, cake, chill, clabber, clasp, cleave, clinch, cling, cling to, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, cohere, concrete, conglomerate, cool, curd, curdle, dry, embrace, freeze, freeze solid, freeze to, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, glaciate, glacify, grasp, grow together, hang on, hang together, hold, hold on, hold together, hug, ice, incrassate, indurate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knot, lopper, lump, mass, nip, persist, quick-freeze, refreeze, regelate, set, solidify, stay, stay put, stick, stick together, take hold of, thick, thicken

ROGET THESAURUS

congeal

Density

VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.

Refrigeration

VB cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice, congeal, freeze, glaciate, benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, damp, slack quench, put out, stamp out, extinguish, go out, burn out (incombustibility).

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