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 Working with drummer Jamie Douglass, bassist Ron Johnson and keyboard player Mickey Finn on the record and on the road, the songs began to take on new life as the group continued to gel during a lengthy tour in support of the album. — Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 The companies that have worked with her see real changes — people stay longer, teams actually gel, communication improves, and leaders get better at reading the room. — William Jones, USA Today, 11 June 2026 It can be gelled, emulsified, and made into just about anything. — Alana Semuels, Time, 1 June 2026 The casting of the actors playing the younger versions of the real people is so spot-on that the fiction scenes gel seamlessly with the interviews, while the film is peppered with fragments of educational documentaries about AIDS from the era. — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 25 May 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
  • But the freeze covers only about 28% of the total housing stock in the city, and critics allege that freezing rents will only make the housing shortage worse.
    — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 10 July 2026
  • Xinhua said the factory’s owner and managers were arrested and the company’s accounts were frozen.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
Definition of freeze
Verb
  • Group 1 is pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare and severe version that occurs when blood vessels in the lungs narrow and stiffen.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 26 June 2026
  • Pulisic played a dynamic first half in the Americans' historic 4-1 victory over Paraguay to open their home World Cup nearly two weeks ago, but the AC Milan midfielder came off at halftime after an injury from training stiffened up.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 June 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
  • Coach Ben Johnson can sense his group jelling in terms of understanding expectations and how the coaching staff expects players to attack their business.
    — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 1 June 2026
  • Barkey and Zegras are roommates — and jelled just as well as linemates.
    — CBS News Philadelphia Staff, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
Definition of jell
Verb
  • 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
  • If an egg cracks during boiling, vinegar can help the egg white coagulate faster, preventing it from leaking into the water.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 3 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
  • The heroine’s eyes are filled with yearning, her eyelashes glistening and ever-so-perfectly clumped?
    — Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 5 July 2026
  • Clothes with pet hair can clump and stick to the washing machine, and spread to the next load.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
Definition of clump
Verb
  • Instead, mud, water, splintered wood, smoke, skin, and more congeal into the same revolting sensory wavelength for a result that’s occasionally cosmic.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026
  • All of it can congeal into too much, separating New Yorkers for a season from New Yorkers for life.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of congeal

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