as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
the blood coagulated, and a scab formed on the wound
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Recent Examples of coagulate
Marie panics, her mother bursts inside to see what's going on… and Marie's blood suddenly coagulates into a sharp point and soars through the air, slitting her mother's throat.
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Alex Raiman, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2023
Then they are allowed to coagulate, before being pressed into shape.
—Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
Scientists have proven the blood of salmon in pre-spawn phases coagulates almost immediately.
—Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
Fish scientists agree the blood of a salmon in the pre-spawning phase coagulates almost instantaneously.
—Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
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Alex Raiman, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2023
Then they are allowed to coagulate, before being pressed into shape.
—Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
Scientists have proven the blood of salmon in pre-spawn phases coagulates almost immediately.
—Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
Fish scientists agree the blood of a salmon in the pre-spawning phase coagulates almost instantaneously.
—Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
See all Example Sentences for coagulate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coagulate
Verb
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Within a few years, the Hawks gelled into a studied, tight backing band.—
Randall Roberts,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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There’s a sizable B-plot featuring Jodie Turner-Smith’s Gracie — a Bahamian woman suffering a crisis of faith regarding how best to abide by her grandmother’s African religion — that never gels with the bright white A-story.—
Erin Strecker,
IndieWire,
17 Dec. 2024
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Rogan received one of the select seats in the US Capitol Rotunda after the ceremony was moved indoors due to freezing temperatures and its capacity was drastically reduced.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Jan. 2025
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Many Northwest Indiana school districts will shift to an e-learning day on Tuesday due to freezing temperatures and dangerous wind chills.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Spritzing the end of the thread with hairspray will stiffen it just enough to be able to be threaded more easily, but keeps enough flexibility to be used.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy: Another rare type, this causes heart muscles to stiffen, which in turn prevents the heart’s ventricles from filling with enough blood to pump throughout the body.—
Elizabeth Millard,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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Aside this was a pool — five or six feet long and almost as wide — of what appeared to be the same fetid liquid, congealed.—
Ian Frisch,
Curbed,
9 Jan. 2025
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Episodes don’t feel like episodes, so much as chunks of one long blob-like thing meant to congeal around the edges of each movie.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Dec. 2024
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Plasma carries essential proteins and clotting factors essential during emergencies, yet fewer than 4% of the population have this blood type.—
Beth Warren,
The Tennessean,
22 Nov. 2024
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Anticoagulants target clotting factors in the blood, whereas antiplatelets prevent platelets from clumping together.—
Alex Yampolsky,
Verywell Health,
20 Sep. 2024
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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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