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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To solidify by or as if by freezing: "My aim . . . was to take the Hill by storm before . . . opposition to spending cuts congealed” ( David A. Stockman).
  2. v. To coagulate; jell.
  3. v. To cause to solidify or coagulate or to undergo a process likened to solidification or coagulation. See Synonyms at coagulate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To convert from a fluid to a solid state, especially through loss of heat, as water in freezing, or melted metal or wax in cooling; freeze, stiffen, harden, concrete, or clot.
  2. To check the flow of; cause to run cold; thicken.
  3. To grow hard, stiff, or thick; pass from a fluid to a solid state, especially as an effect of cold; harden; freeze.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To change from a liquid to solid state perhaps by cold
  2. v. To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid as gel or jelly
  3. v. To make rigid or immobile
  4. v. To become congealed, solidify

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.
  2. v. To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.
  3. v. To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. become gelatinous

Etymologies

  1. Middle English congelen, from Old French congeler, from Latin congelāre : com-, com- + gelāre, to freeze; see gel- in Indo-European roots.

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