[ UK /kənd‍ʒˈiːl/ ]
[ US /kənˈdʒiɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. become gelatinous
    the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme
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How To Use congeal In A Sentence

  • But there are other septaria of iron-stone which seem to have had a very different origin, their cavities having been formed in cooling or congealing from an ignited state, as is ingeniously deduced by Dr. Hutton from their internal structure. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
  • From this silence there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces conciseness in the historian.
  • The silence of the night pictures itself before him in the form of an endless expanse of perfectly calm, dark water, which has overflowed everything and congealed; there is not a ripple on it, not a shadow of a motion, and neither is there anything within it, although it is bottomlessly deep. The Man Who Was Afraid
  • From the way it glistened I could tell it was only just beginning to congeal. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
  • The delicacy, a combination of congealed pigs' blood, fat and rusk encased in a length of intestine, is closely related to German blutwurst, French boudin noir and Spanish morcilla.
  • When cooled, the product congeals and therefore, the form and texture of anything made with gelatin can be imaginatively altered.
  • We do not see that, while we still affect by all means a rigid external formality, we may as soon fall again into a gross conforming stupidity, a stark and dead congealment of wood and hay and stubble, forced and frozen together, which is more to the sudden degenerating of a Church than many subdichotomies of petty schisms. Areopagitica
  • Yet somehow the film's parts never quite congeal into a satisfying whole.
  • The blood had congealed round the cut on her knee.
  • Blood congeals to form a clot.
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