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CONGEALED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does congealed mean?
• CONGEALED (adjective)
The adjective CONGEALED has 1 sense:
1. congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling
Familiarity information: CONGEALED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Congealed into jelly; solidified by cooling
Synonyms:
Context example:
in Georgia they serve congealed salads
Similar:
solid (of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous)
Context examples
His blood was too congealed to accelerate to the swift tidal flow of indignation.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Besides, I was out of practice in talking to him: his reserve was again frozen over, and my frankness was congealed beneath it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Holding his candle so that he could read the coffin plates, and so holding it that the sperm dropped in white patches which congealed as they touched the metal, he made assurance of Lucy's coffin.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I covered my head and arms with the skirt of my frock, and went out to walk in a part of the plantation which was quite sequestrated; but I found no pleasure in the silent trees, the falling fir-cones, the congealed relics of autumn, russet leaves, swept by past winds in heaps, and now stiffened together.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Gathering my mantle about me, and sheltering my hands in my muff, I did not feel the cold, though it froze keenly; as was attested by a sheet of ice covering the causeway, where a little brooklet, now congealed, had overflowed after a rapid thaw some days since.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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