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What (who) is Congeal - definition
congeal
I. v. a.
Freeze, turn or convert to ice.
II. v. n.
Freeze, be or become frozen, turn or be converted into ice.
congeal
(congeals, congealing, congealed)
When a liquid congeals, it becomes very thick and sticky and almost solid.
The blood had started to congeal.
...spilled wine mingled with congealed soup.
VERB: V, V-ed
congeal
[k?n'd?i:l]
¦ verb become semi-solid, especially on cooling.
Derivatives
congelation ?k?nd??'le??(?)n noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. congeler, from L. congelare, from con- 'together' + gelare 'freeze' (from gelu 'frost').
Examples of use of Congeal
1. It is not the hope of 2,000 years, which has already begun to congeal.
2. But the best measure of the region‘s temperate winter might be lake ice, which requires cold, still weather to congeal properly.
3. Unlike most of the material in the solar system, which has been worked over by planetary formation, the odds and ends of the Kuiper Belt were too cold and distant to congeal into a large planet.
4. We used to eat kanyaa [a congeal with only a little food grain]. EGS employment gives us the luxury of eating rice in the dry season." Related Stories Seeking tourists, India launches makeover campaign 04/26/05 Indian–American community exerts growing clout back home 03/21/05 India‘s newly wealthy open wallets 01/07/05
5. "But it is mainly their honest view of the law and of the role of a judge that will cause them to congeal insofar as they do, and not really their Catholicism." For 150 years, from 1836 to 1'86, there was usually just one Catholic – and never more than two –– serving on the Supreme Court at a time.