as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
pain relievers with a gelatinized coating
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Recent Examples of gelatinize
Before freezing, blanching the potatoes gelatinizes surface starches, and freezing encourages those starches to reorganize into a firmer structure.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gelatinize
Verb
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It can be gelled, emulsified, and made into just about anything.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
1 June 2026
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Guardiola had to gel together a new, young team, featuring many players who were not immediately suited to playing his style of football.—
Sam Lee,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
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Dodgers left-hander Justin Wrobleski shouted two words — the first of which didn’t appear to be fit for print — and strode off the mound, the icy expression on his face frozen in place all the way to the dugout.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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But it's also made people even more skeptical of public figures whose appearances seem naturally frozen in time.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Verb
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Spritzing the end of the thread with hairspray will stiffen it just enough to be able to be threaded more easily, but keeps enough flexibility to be used.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
27 May 2026
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One was to basically put on the record and call out everything that this FCC has done to try to bring Disney to heel but also to encourage it and other broadcasters to stiffen their spine.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 May 2026
Verb
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Raw milk is treated with heat, acid, or enzymes to coagulate it into two distinct substances: curds, which become cheese, and whey, which was, at least until recently, the cheesemaking process’s unlovely by-product.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2026
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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
Verb
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Since then, speculation has congealed into reality.—
Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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Engineers even worried that slow-moving crude would congeal inside the pipeline, creating waxy buildup that could turn TAPS into the world’s biggest tube of ChapStick.—
Jennifer A. Dlouhy,
Fortune,
24 May 2026
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“Gelatinize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gelatinize. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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