Congeal
verb
To change from a liquid or soft state to a thick or solid state.
The blood had started to congeal.
Often appears as...
- congeal into
- blood congeal
verb
To become fixed, stuck, or unchangeable, often in a bad situation or state.
His ideas had congealed and he was unable to think of anything new.
Often appears as...
- congeal into
- ideas congeal
verb
To change from a liquid or soft state to a thick or solid state.
The blood had started to congeal.
Often appears as...
- congeal into
- blood congeal
verb
To become fixed, stuck, or unchangeable, often in a bad situation or state.
His ideas had congealed and he was unable to think of anything new.
Often appears as...
- congeal into
- ideas congeal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical change
Used when something physically thickens or hardens, especially when cooled.
When the jelly cools down, it will congeal into a firm shape.
Pro Tip 2/3Gradual process
The action of congealing happens over time, not instantly.
As the night grew colder, the stew in the pot slowly began to congeal.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual imagery
The word often evokes a clear visual image of a substance's texture changing.
You could see the fat congeal at the top of the soup as it cooled.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical change
Used when something physically thickens or hardens, especially when cooled.
When the jelly cools down, it will congeal into a firm shape.
Pro Tip 2/3Gradual process
The action of congealing happens over time, not instantly.
As the night grew colder, the stew in the pot slowly began to congeal.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual imagery
The word often evokes a clear visual image of a substance's texture changing.
You could see the fat congeal at the top of the soup as it cooled.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical change
Used when something physically thickens or hardens, especially when cooled.
When the jelly cools down, it will congeal into a firm shape.
Pro Tip 2/3Gradual process
The action of congealing happens over time, not instantly.
As the night grew colder, the stew in the pot slowly began to congeal.
Pro Tip 3/3Visual imagery
The word often evokes a clear visual image of a substance's texture changing.
You could see the fat congeal at the top of the soup as it cooled.
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Video examples
Samantha Power: Shaking...
it has congealed into this endangered people's movement that was missing in the 20th century. It sees itself, such as it is, the it, as something that will create the impression that there will be political cost, there will be a political price to be paid,
Video examples
The history of our world...
quickly distinct things begin to appear in that blur within the first second energy itself shatters into distinct forces including electromagnetism and gravity and energy does something else quite magical it congeals to form matter
Video examples
Samantha Power: Shaking...
it has congealed into this endangered people's movement that was missing in the 20th century. It sees itself, such as it is, the it, as something that will create the impression that there will be political cost, there will be a political price to be paid,
Video examples
The history of our world...
quickly distinct things begin to appear in that blur within the first second energy itself shatters into distinct forces including electromagnetism and gravity and energy does something else quite magical it congeals to form matter
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Quote examples
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian Scientist
I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The thought froze me instantly, like literary Botox. I returned to my non-schedule: sleeping, writing 20 minutes, and then back to sleep. Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
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Richard Powers
American Novelist
We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.
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Trevor Paglen
American Artist
It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.
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Swara Bhaskar
Indian Actress
I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.
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Robert Smithson
American Artist
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
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Clement Freud
British Writer
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
Quote examples
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian Scientist
I once set myself a deadline: half a chapter a week, 20 minutes a day. The thought froze me instantly, like literary Botox. I returned to my non-schedule: sleeping, writing 20 minutes, and then back to sleep. Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
Quote examples
Richard Powers
American Novelist
We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.
Quote examples
Trevor Paglen
American Artist
It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.
Quote examples
Swara Bhaskar
Indian Actress
I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.
Quote examples
Robert Smithson
American Artist
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
Quote examples
Clement Freud
British Writer
Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.
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