as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
this fruit juice is taking longer to jelly than I expected
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Recent Examples of jelly
From here, the longest run in the region is a leg-jellying 15 kilometer, 2,000-meter descent back down to Gaislachkogl.
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CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos.
—Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2017
Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts.
—Meredith Blake, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
Or millions, all at once, literally jellying up the works.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2013
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CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos.
—Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2017
Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts.
—Meredith Blake, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
Or millions, all at once, literally jellying up the works.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jelly
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
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“Jelly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jelly. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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