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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 Its remaining five songs seem to appear at random, never gelling into a cohesive force or threading a narrative. — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 6 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
  • When you thaw meat at room temperature, the exterior can warm up into this zone while the interior is still frozen.
    — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 26 Sep. 2026
  • That creates friction with organizations pre-wired to freeze configurations, validate extensively and minimize variation before production.
    — Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of freeze
Verb
  • The Chiefs’ defense stiffened and Indy faced a fourth-and-8 from the 15-yard line.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Over time, smoking can narrow and stiffen blood vessels and accelerate cardiovascular disease.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of stiffen
Verb
  • 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
  • Small Batch is one of the few businesses in the region taking a chance on jellying the fruit, despite seeing little interest.
    — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 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
  • 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
  • As most of the scientific books tell us, coagulating protein at lower temperatures produces more tender clumps; adding a little water or cream makes an omelet tenderer still.
    — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 5 Apr. 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
  • How often these heavy atoms bond with each other, or clump together, depends on the temperature at which the mineral formed.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Stir in 1 cup cold cream until mixture begins to clump together.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 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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“Gel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gel. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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