as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
the blood coagulated, and a scab formed on the wound
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Recent Examples of coagulate
The honey was too thick and caused the sauce to kind of coagulate.
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Brittany Loggins,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Dec. 2025
For many of the protesters, a general sense of lawlessness – not supported by official crime figures for England and Wales, which broadly show a decrease over the past decade – had coagulated into a specific fear of migrants.
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Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
12 Dec. 2025
Researchers tasted the first trials of ant yogurt, where the milk had begun to coagulate and acidify, which are signs of early yogurt fermentation.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.
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Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for coagulate
Brittany Loggins,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Dec. 2025
For many of the protesters, a general sense of lawlessness – not supported by official crime figures for England and Wales, which broadly show a decrease over the past decade – had coagulated into a specific fear of migrants.
—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
12 Dec. 2025
Researchers tasted the first trials of ant yogurt, where the milk had begun to coagulate and acidify, which are signs of early yogurt fermentation.
—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.
—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for coagulate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coagulate
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At halftime, Irankunda and Metcalfe came on as substitutes, and the team started to gel and to threaten.
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Any apprehensions about whether a first-time collaboration between Hartford’s two largest self-producing theaters — Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford — could gel smoothly enough to grasp all the nuances of this challenging work are dispelled immediately by the opening number.
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Gupta considers the blanket rent freeze a blunt tool that doesn't adequately address the affordability crisis.
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Identity monitoring service Aura can also freeze your credit without requiring you to contact the credit bureaus.
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Group 1 is pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare and severe version that occurs when blood vessels in the lungs narrow and stiffen.
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Pulisic played a dynamic first half in the Americans' historic 4-1 victory over Paraguay to open their home World Cup nearly two weeks ago, but the AC Milan midfielder came off at halftime after an injury from training stiffened up.
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All of it can congeal into too much, separating New Yorkers for a season from New Yorkers for life.
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The career that has followed has been the rare one that survived a child-star debut without ever congealing into the obvious next thing.
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Before freezing, blanching the potatoes gelatinizes surface starches, and freezing encourages those starches to reorganize into a firmer structure.
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Starches swell with heat and water, gelatinizing to give dough its airy lift.
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The primary kind is vitamin K1, found mainly in vegetables, which plays a major role in the body’s blood-clotting process.
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Intersections became improvised plazas, clotted with bodies.
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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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