con|geal´ment

con|geal´ment
con|geal «kuhn JEEL», transitive verb, intransitive verb.
1. to harden or make solid by cold; freeze: »

The river congealed into a solid sheet of ice with the first freeze this winter.

2. to solidify as if by freezing; thicken; stiffen: »

The pudding congealed as it cooled. Figurative. Fear congealed his very blood.

SYNONYM(S): coagulate, jell.
[< Old French congeler, learned borrowing from Latin congelāre < com- (intensive) + gelāre freeze < gelū, -ūs frost, ice]
con|geal´a|ble, adjective.
con|geal´er, noun.
con|geal´ment, noun.

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