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 Sprouse’s brown hair was gelled and slicked back, drawing attention to his facial details. — Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026 Her hair was worn long, slick, and gelled close to the head, keeping all eyes on the dress’s intricate construction and flashes of skin. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2026 Nowhere has that been more evident than in Mbappe and Vinicius Jr’s failure to gel together. — Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2026 Both have had time to gel as a squad, and both have managers who know how to get over the line. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 16 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Add the dry ingredients and the ground nuts to the mixer bowl (with the mixer off) and beat on low speed just until combined, then increase the speed to medium and beat until the dough starts to clump together.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Micelles that form in the liquid dope prevent the messy, disordered proteins from clumping and getting tangled.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of clump
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
  • The brake cylinder fluid had congealed to the consistency of sand.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of congeal

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