gel

verb

Definition of gelnext
as in to freeze
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly the fruit juice should gel after you add the pectin

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Recent Examples of gel Here, her natural hair was styled in a sleek, avant-garde aesthetic that gelled her front layer in a sharp wave over her forehead. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 July 2026 At halftime, Irankunda and Metcalfe came on as substitutes, and the team started to gel and to threaten. — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 1 July 2026 Any apprehensions about whether a first-time collaboration between Hartford’s two largest self-producing theaters — Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford — could gel smoothly enough to grasp all the nuances of this challenging work are dispelled immediately by the opening number. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026 Formed in London in 1981, Culture Club’s first batch of songs came easily thanks to how well the members gelled, as Moss recalls in the clip from Boy George & Culture Club. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for gel
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gel
  1. freeze
  2. stiffen
  3. jelly
  4. jell
  5. coagulate
  6. gelatinize
  7. clump
  8. congeal
Verb
  • Ice•ology trays use a slow-freezing process designed to separate impurities and air bubbles from the ice, creating crystal-clear cubes that elevate cocktails, mocktails and everyday beverages.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Barnes is cold-based, and thus frozen directly onto the bedrock beneath it, which prevents it from sliding.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of freeze
Verb
  • Proposition 132 attempts to address these concerns by stiffening legal penalties.
    — Joshua Barocas, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
  • But one of the positives Glenn highlighted was the defense stiffening in the red zone against Chicago, which went 2 of 7 inside the New York 20-yard line.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of stiffen
Verb
  • Rows of organs jellied into translucence, bound by webs of blood vessels dyed blue and red.
    — Daniel Barnum, Longreads, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The placement on Favre’s 350-yard shot had been dead-on and the lungs were jellied.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2025
Definition of jelly
Verb
  • The following week, things jelled much better as Alexis Contreras scored Golden State’s first-ever touchdown and the Storm had its own blowout victory, 31–2 over the Las Vegas Silver Stars.
    — Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Ulreich said the Redhawks (1-1) had a terrible week of practice, but things jelled from the start against the Porters (0-2).
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of jell
Verb
  • These high-acidity juices can cause whey protein powder to coagulate and curdle.
    — Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Reciprocal male-on-male mounting among corpse-eating burying beetles increases with heat stress, and chronic heat stress coagulates the blood of Holstein Friesian cattle.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of coagulate
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
  • Proteins and blood cells Proteins and DNA can gather on plastic surfaces, and lysozyme, a common test protein, also began clumping into aggregates there.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Ordinary matter alone would struggle to clump together tightly enough to form stars.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of clump
Verb
  • The brake cylinder fluid had congealed to the consistency of sand.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Nu Jazz are a New York supergroup that’s congealed out of a handful of overlapping scenes.
    — Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026
Definition of congeal

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