Crossword clues for congeal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congeal \Con*geal"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Congealed; p. pr. & vb. n. Congealing.] [F. congeler, L. congelare, -gelatumn; con- + gelare to freeze, gelu frost. See Gelid.]
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To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.
Syn: jell, set.
A vapory deluge lies to snow congealed.
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To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.
As if with horror to congeal his blood.
--Stirling.
Congeal \Con*geal"\, v. 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.
Syn: jell, set.
Lest zeal, now melted . . .
Cool and congeal again to what it was.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To change from a liquid to solid state perhaps by cold 2 (context transitive English) To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid as gel or jelly 3 (context transitive English) To make rigid or immobile 4 (context intransitive English) To become congealed, solidify
WordNet
Usage examples of "congeal".
The special rounds had dispersed airburst aerosols that congealed into vast translucent sheets.
She scrambled through bone platters and wooden bowls holding the remains of the feast congealed in them, searching for the treasured container.
Then her hands rose and rested on him, the tears cool on his face, congealing, the white of her clean as the silent snow that covers char and blood and breathes peace upon the world.
Nothing remained of Chaldee but a rapidly congealing ichor from which the hilt of Demonfang protruded.
Sloppy lumps congealed in their eyebrows and pubic hair, the diarrhoeic paste streaking their bodies like a cheap fake sun-tan cream.
And yet his friend Pompey, whom he adored and knew to be so kind, could toss his beautiful mane of yellow hair unconcernedly back from his temples and whistle happily through his teeth as he picked his way between the deep congealed pools of flyblown blood in the square, his beautiful blue eyes containing nothing save approval as they roamed across the literal hills of headless bodies all around him.
And phenotypic consequences, instead of being evenly distributed throughout the world, have in many cases congealed into those same bodies.
Some were completely coated in the thick stuff: it spread across roofs, linking different buildings into a lumpy, congealed totality.
It had a thatched roof, reeds rotting and congealing, caked in tidemark ripples of blue-green fungal growths.
And beyond that, in the place where they were heading, there stood, like petrified stumps of unbelievable trees, volcanic plugs that had been ejected from seismic blowholes millions of years ago and congealed.
Staff Sergeant Cahill who found the congealed trickle of blood in a fold of the shower curtain.
A line of congealed blood snaked across her smooth forehead, jinked down, and crossed her left eye, which bulged out, blind and staring.
Speaking of food, English cuisine has received a lot of unfair criticism over the years, but the truth is that it can be a very pleasant surprise to the connoisseur of severely overcooked livestock organs served in lukewarm puddles of congealed grease.
But instead of that life-giving liquid, it consisted of complex organic polymers that, when exposed to air, congealed rapidly into a solid, crystalline form.
The colors surrounded them and then congealed, and Q and Lwaxana Troi stepped out as if through a dimensional portal.