To congeal means to thicken, clot, cake or coagulate. Mary cut herself with a knife, but within a few minutes the blood started to congeal.
The opposite of congeal is liquefy. When a substance liquefies, it changes from a solid to a liquid state.
Clot, coalesce, solidify, congeal, set...
Ice can be added in place of cold water to help the gelatin mixture congeal more rapidly. The lower temperature of the ice helps to solidify the gelatin faster.
It will not absorb it but will congeal with it to create a sticky mess!
Exposition
If you don't wash the dishes right away, the food on them will congeal over the warm night.
If you meant 'congeal' - one answer could be "the spilled soup dried, making it congeal into a dark stain."
the man congeals the ice cream
The opposite of congeal is liquefy. When a substance liquefies, it changes from a solid to a liquid state.
She congealed the water into ice by putting it in the freezerCongeal- to turn something from liquid to a solid state Although technically correct, your example is not, as congeal would never be used in reference to water. The spilt blood would eventually congeal into a gelatinous blob.After the pudding still hadn't congealed after four hours, Marcus began to wonder what he had managed to do wrong this time.
Yes. There is a way to safely congeal someone in jello. How?
To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle., To thicken; to congeal., To change into curd; to cause to coagulate., To congeal or thicken.
From Latin; gelare, "to congeal".
To solidify
Clot, coalesce, solidify, congeal, set...
The term "CONGEAL" likely means to thicken or solidify, as gelatin does when it cools.
Blood does congeal once it outside of the body forming a jelly like consistency.