To grow hard, stiff or thick; to pass from a fluid to a solid state; to concrete into a solid mass. Melted lead congelas; water congeals; blood congeals.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To change from a fluid to a solid sate, as by cold, or a loss of heat, as water in freezing, liquid metal or wax in cooling, blood in stagnating or cooling, etc.; to harden into ice, or into a substance of less solidity. Cold congeals water into ice, or vapor into hoar frost or snow, and blood into a less solid mass, or clot.
1. To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.
That may be congealed; capable of being converted from a fluid to a solid state.
Capable of being congealed.
Converted into ice, or a solid mass, by the loss of heat or other process; concreted.
The state of being congealed.
Changing from a liquid to a solid state; concreting.
of Congeal
1. The act or the process of congealing; congeliation.
2. That which is formed by congelation; a clot.
Density Roget’s Thesaurus §321
N. density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude|, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum|, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star
V. be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate
Adj. dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous|, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible
Refrigeration Roget’s Thesaurus §385
N. refrigeration, infrigidation, reduction of temperature, cooling, congelation, conglaciation|, ice, solidification, ice box (refrigerator) 385, extincteur, fire annihilator, amianth, amianthus, earth-flax, mountain-flax, flexible asbestos, fireman, fire brigade (incombustibility) 388a, incombustibility, incombustibleness, (insulation) 388a, air conditioning, central air conditioning, air conditioner, fan, attic fan, dehumidifier
V. cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice, congeal, freeze, glaciate, benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, damp, slack quench, put out, stamp out, extinguish, go out, burn out (incombustibility) 388a
Adj. cooled, frozen out, cooling, frigorific
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3 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “congeal”
When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate.