congeals
Sets when cooling
Congeals means becomes solid or semisolid, typically through cooling or chemical change.
Blood congeals as it clots; grease congeals on a cold pan.
The word often suggests an unpleasant thickening: The sauce had congealed into a rubbery mass.
Figuratively, ideas or plans can congeal—taking fixed form after a fluid period: Opposition to the proposal congealed into organized resistance.
Becomes hard or firm
- thickensBecomes less fluid
- clotsSolidified blood masses
- coagulatesSolidifies from liquid state
- setsGrouped items together
hardens · gels · curdles · stiffens · jellies · firms · freezes · cools
Forms into ordered solid
- solidifiesBecomes hard or firm
- formsVarieties or documents
- takes shapeBecomes distinct and recognizable
- materializesBecomes physically present
emerges · coheres · unifies · gathers · accumulates · hardens · rigidifies · stiffens
solidifies
Becomes hard or firm
- thickensBecomes less fluid
- clotsSolidified blood masses
- coagulatesSolidifies from liquid state
sets · hardens · gels · curdles · stiffens · jellies · firms · freezes · cools · coalesces
crystallizes
Forms into ordered solid
- solidifiesBecomes hard or firm
- formsVarieties or documents
- takes shapeBecomes distinct and recognizable
materializes · emerges · coheres · unifies · gathers · accumulates · hardens · rigidifies · stiffens · freezes
clots
Solidified blood masses
- coagulatesSolidifies from liquid state
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- plasmaElectrified matter state
fibrin · platelets · hemostasis · scab · wounds · healing · thrombus · clotting · serum · proteins
aspic
Savory meat-broth jelly
consomme · chilled · refrigerated · fat cap · schmaltz · tallow · fond · jelly · terrine · head cheese
- solidifieshardens, freezes, sets, gels, coagulates
congealsdisperses
Spreads widely apart
scatters · dissipates · disintegrates · dissolves · fragments