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  • adjective solidified.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of congeal.
  • adjective obsolete Frozen.
  • adjective Viscid, coagulated; jelly-like, unusually thick (of a liquid).

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  • adjective congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling

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Examples

  • See, you forget that these people exist if you stay at home, avoiding the fair like some sort of black plague that ushers with it human mutants wearing matching mall-photo-booth t-shirts stretched out over gigantic, distended Orca bellies, fried foods running in congealed little balls down their protruding and exposed torsos, long rat tails of hair hanging …

    The Archive 2009

  • Then suddenly visualising the poor beasts lying stiff in congealed blood, and the mailman's exaggerated description of trees black with crows, she flamed out in wrathful horror, and was as anxious as her husband that the perpetrators of the crime should be brought to justice.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • He scatters the hoar-frost, which is dew congealed, as the snow and hail are rain congealed.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • I may get to novels where I feel that he dislikes or disdains a female character, but for now I'm trying hard not to make the kind of congealed judgment that makes it hard to read for reading's sake.

    Karen Stabiner: The Philip Roth Reader: Who Cares What Kind of Husband He Was? 2009

  • And what a lot of them do, they've kind of congealed, or they've condensed their populace or their guests into one or two of their, say, seven or eight properties to kind of keep everybody in one spot.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2007 2007

  • Comments somehow while searching for a recipe for a gelatin "congealed" salad made with horseradish, I got to your site.

    Dovish Fun With Google 2006

  • GROSS: No. Actually, I think the government over the past decade has kind of congealed its effort and has been working very hard to coordinate the efforts.

    CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2005 2005

  • The adjective 'congealed' is used proleptically, the meaning being 'froze into a stone so that it was congealed.'

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • Call these salads "congealed," Jell-O, gelatin or whatever else you'd like.

    ParentDish Katie Workman 2008

  • The old man shifted in his seat, fingers nervously toying with his lap rug, eyes darting from the congealed egg on his plate to the smoking fire to Aidan.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

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