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congeal
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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
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- All around her were dirty pots and congealing butter, the fiery red husks of lobsters like the shells of dead cicadas.†
p. 182.1congealing = thickening; or coming together
- Yet a frying pan sat on the old stove, cold, the grease congealed but not, when he leaned to smell it, rancid.†
p. 264.1 *congealed = thickened; or came together
Definitions:
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(1)
(congeal) to thicken or solidify, usually when cooled
or:
the coming together of an idea or something with many parts - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)