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UK
/kəndʒˈiːl/
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[ US /kənˈdʒiɫ/ ]
[ US /kənˈdʒiɫ/ ]
VERB
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become gelatinous
the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme
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.