Both Uses of
coagulate
in
The Road, by McCarthy
- 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.
*coagulate = changed from liquid to a solid state
- Passing them in silence down that silent corridor through the drifting ash where they struggled forever in the road's cold coagulate.†
Definition:
change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state