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change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state- The blood began to coagulate.
coagulate = change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
- The bump on my forehead was swollen and I stopped the bleeding by lying still and letting it coagulate,Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- He felt the evil coagulating about him, and he was helpless to protect himself.John Steinbeck -- The Pearl
- But it coagulated and dried before it reached his chinErnest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
- They stood on the far shore of a river... Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate. ...in the coagulate sands.Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
- The blood was already coagulating inside the wound, and it was simply a matter of bandaging him up and keeping him calm until the plane landed.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- His thoughts would not coagulate.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- The public prosecutor made an effort to smile a little with his lips on which the blood had coagulated.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- I got mop and pail, sprayed a room with disinfectant, and scrubbed at coagulated blood and hardened dog, rat, and rabbit feces.Richard Wright -- Black Boy
- A surgeon will probe the exposed brain before slicing into it with a scalpel, using the path of coagulated blood to trace the trajectory of the ball.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- Gets visible as it coagulates, I see.H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
- There was blood everywhere, coagulating to a deep red crust.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- Chouchou's mouth was a coagulated pool of dark blood; he coughed up more than a liter of blood in his agonal moments.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- There's a protein in muscle plasma called myosin that coagulates in the muscle fiber and causes rigor mortis.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- There's a thing called disseminated intravascular coagulation, but it's rare and requires all sorts of special circumstances to initiate it.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- Spit coagulated into little white gobs at the corners of her mouth.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- The next morning Sean would open the refrigerator and find the coagulated, extra Mexican pizza.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- Six hours after death the capillaries coagulate.David Baldacci -- Zero Day
- Suddenly, the blur in the distance coagulated into a farm with silos and fields and spots of cows.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- The air in the evening lamplight is coagulated, like a custard thickening; heavier sediments of light collect in the corners of the living room.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
coagulate = change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
coagulating = getting thicker and more solid
coagulated = of blood: thickened (eventually becoming a scab)
coagulate = changed from liquid to a solid state
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)