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Definition
transition from a liquid to a thicker liquid or solidor:
the coming together of an idea or something with many parts
- It makes the sauce congeal.
- 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
- I don't like spaghetti when it's normal, let alone congealed.Paul Zindel -- The Pigman
- The red sauce below his lips was like congealed blood.David Almond -- Skellig
- Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land.Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
- 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
congealed = thickened
congealed = solidified into a single clump
congealed = thickened
congeal = become firmer