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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. transitive To change from a liquid to solid state perhaps by cold
  2. v. transitive To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid as gel or jelly
  3. v. transitive To make rigid or immobile
  4. v. intransitive 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 Middle French congeler, from Latin congelare, cognate with Spanish congelar. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English congelen, from Old French congeler, from Latin congelāre : com-, com- + gelāre, to freeze; see gel- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (11)

Words with the same meaning

  1. chill
  2. jell
  1. set
  2. freeze
  1. solidify
  2. fix
  1. pectize
  2. gelatinize
  1. jelly
  2. coagulate
  1. ice

antonyms (2)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. soften
  1. liquify

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. solidify

rhymes (82)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Biel
  2. Brasil
  3. Camille
  4. Cecile
  5. Cele
  6. Ciel
  7. Emil
  8. Emile
  9. Keil
  10. Kiel
  11. Lille
  12. Lucile
  13. Lucille
  14. Neal
  15. Neale
  16. Neel
  1. Neil
  2. Nevil
  3. Peale
  4. Peel
  5. Real
  6. Riel
  7. Scheele
  8. Shaquille
  9. Steele
  10. Weil
  11. anneal
  12. appeal
  13. automobile
  14. beal
  15. conceal
  16. corneal
  1. creel
  2. deal
  3. deale
  4. diel
  5. eel
  6. feel
  7. fiel
  8. genteel
  9. havill
  10. heal
  11. heel
  12. ideal
  13. ifil
  14. keel
  15. kneel
  16. leal
  1. meal
  2. mele
  3. neal
  4. niel
  5. ordeal
  6. peal
  7. peel
  8. peele
  9. piel
  10. puerile
  11. real
  12. reel
  13. repeal
  14. reseal
  15. reveal
  16. riel
  1. scheel
  2. seal
  3. seel
  4. shiel
  5. skeel
  6. spiel
  7. squeal
  8. steal
  9. steel
  10. surreal
  11. teal
  12. teel
  13. unreal
  14. unseal
  15. veal
  16. wheel
  1. zeal
  2. zele

reverse dictionary (20)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. volcano
  2. enfreeze
  3. curd
  4. curdle
  1. jelly
  2. freeze
  3. frosty
  4. geal
  1. astringe
  2. concoagulate
  3. congelative
  4. conglaciate
  1. jell
  2. fix
  3. pectize
  4. rime
  1. set
  2. candy
  3. coagulate
  4. concrete

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