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
Still, blood’s habit of coagulating, so useful in the body, proved a challenge outside of it: within a few minutes of beginning a transfusion, clots would gum up the needles and tubes, seriously limiting the quantity of blood that could be moved from person to person.
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Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless.
—John Carreyrou, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Antonio ended up in intensive care at Dell’s Children's Medical Center and was gaunt, his blood coagulating.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Nov. 2024
As a preventative course of treatment, people with the blood disorder receive weekly injections of factor IX to enable their blood to coagulate, said GOSH.
—Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 27 June 2024
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Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Her husband’s samples had arrived there coagulated and useless.
—John Carreyrou, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Antonio ended up in intensive care at Dell’s Children's Medical Center and was gaunt, his blood coagulating.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Nov. 2024
As a preventative course of treatment, people with the blood disorder receive weekly injections of factor IX to enable their blood to coagulate, said GOSH.
—Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 27 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coagulate
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The touring band gelled quickly, with the trio putting a new spin upon the tracks live on stage each night, releasing their debut album Live Flowers as mssv (main steam stop valve) later that year.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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The defining hairstyle consisted of swoops or curls gelled to the forehead.—
Kleigh Balugo,
StyleCaster,
6 May 2025
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The gargantuan geoengineering project would require half a million underwater drones to pull water from below the melting ice cap and spray it onto the surface to freeze.—
Jeanna Bryner,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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Or nix a plan to freeze state worker salary increases next year?—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
19 May 2025
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The schedule stiffens considerably over the back half of the season.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 May 2025
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Lucy’s Law, among other things, stiffens the penalties for seriously injuring someone in a boat crash.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
9 May 2025
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The storms are expected to congeal into lines of storms, with damaging winds of 60 to 70 mph.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
19 May 2025
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Over time, these criticisms congeal into narratives.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The pictures captured the lifeless water full of debris and silt, stagnant, clotted and scabbed with rubbish.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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These proteins, called clotting factors, need vitamin K to function.—
Caroline Hopkins Legaspi,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Coagulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coagulate. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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