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Definition

transition from a liquid to a thicker liquid or solid

or:

the coming together of an idea or something with many parts

As the night progressed a consensus opinion began to congeal.
Our homemade ice cream didn't congeal.
By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood firm like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.
Exodus 15:8 (NIV)
do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
I saw the congealed blood on his brow.
David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness

congealed = thickened

I don't like spaghetti when it's normal, let alone congealed.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

congealed = solidified into a single clump

The red sauce below his lips was like congealed blood.
David Almond -- Skellig

congealed = thickened

Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road

congeal = become firmer

Dawnglows and evenglows congeal on fences, Dawdling and shirking at their tasks.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Ghastly gray light congealed on the land.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
That knife is already congealing with grease.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
And at once Clyde shriveling—the news playing upon him as an icy and congealing breath.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
The chicken grew cold, the gravy congealing in its boat.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
Past tall anthills congealed in the rain.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
They went to the smelter then, and Rhunon had Saphira pry the still-warm mass of congealed brightsteel from the bottom of the brick trough.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
The thrombolytic agent would keep his blood from congealing when it entered the bypass machine.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
The hollandaise had congealed a bit, but after I stirred it, it seemed fine.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding
"Not really," I said thinking about the thirty pans, each with a wafer of black, sticky resin congealed in the bottom, big as a dinner plate.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
She willed herself not to look at Rasheed, at the rictus of his mouth, his open eyes, at the blood congealing in the hollow of his collarbone.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

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