Coagulate

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  • intransitive verb. To cause transformation of (a liquid or sol, for example) into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass.
  • intransitive verb. To become coagulated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Coagulated; curdled; clotted.
  • To curdle; congeal; clot; change from a fluid into a curd-like or thickened mass: as, to coagulate blood; rennet coagulates milk.
  • To crystallize.
  • To curdle or become clotted; congeal or become congealed.
  • To become crystallized.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Coagulated.
  • intransitive verb. To undergo coagulation.
  • transitive verb. To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A mass formed by means of coagulation.
  • verb. To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass.
  • verb. To cause to congeal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass
  • verb. cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
  • verb. change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
  • Word Usage
    "For tender, succulent results, egg dishes should be cooked only just to the temperature at which their proteins coagulate, which is always well below the boiling point, 212°F/100°C."
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    dissolve  liquefy  melt  
    cross-reference
    jelly  
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    thick  
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    alter  change  modify  
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