COAGULATE Synonyms: 31 Similar and Opposite Words

coagulate

verb

kō-ˈa-gyə-ˌlāt

Definition of coagulate

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 Two dented blue bottles of Cuajo Titanium, a liquid coagulating enzyme used to curdle milk, remained on a wooden table, caked in mud. — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026 A lot of the ambivalent parent discourse tends to coagulate around white cis-het mothers of a certain milieu. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026 The honey was too thick and caused the sauce to kind of coagulate. — Brittany Loggins, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Dec. 2025 For many of the protesters, a general sense of lawlessness – not supported by official crime figures for England and Wales, which broadly show a decrease over the past decade – had coagulated into a specific fear of migrants. — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for coagulate

Recent Examples of Synonyms for coagulate

Verb

But what fleeting experiments the band attempts don’t gel into much.

— Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2026
The question will be about how quickly this team can gel and get everything connected.

— David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of gel

Verb

The questions about the papers were so significant that SSRN, the platform Polson used to share the research papers, took down the articles over the past month and froze the accounts used to post the works.

— TODD WALLACK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
New grid connections around Dublin were effectively frozen for three years.

— Serhiy Tokarev, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of freeze

Verb

Some people stiffen up and look pretty uncomfortable in front of my big camera.

— Sarah Matusek, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2026
The United States and its allies must strive to stiffen the security of their military research, production, and supply chains.

— Sam Mullins, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of stiffen

Verb

Outside, on the stoop of the townhouse, the last remnants of the winter air have congealed on this chilly spring night.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
Grease and Oil Grease and oil might look harmless, but grease has the potential to congeal and harden, while leftover oil can coat your pipes and cause other things to get stuck.

— Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of congeal

Verb

Before freezing, blanching the potatoes gelatinizes surface starches, and freezing encourages those starches to reorganize into a firmer structure.

— Anne Wolf, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
Starches swell with heat and water, gelatinizing to give dough its airy lift.

— Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025

Definition of gelatinize

Verb

Participants may have also been taking aspirin because of a history of heart attack or stroke, which could have lessened Lp(a)’s clotting risk.

— Erika Edwards, NBC news, 7 Nov. 2026
An anticoagulant in their saliva prevents the blood from clotting up.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026