coagulates
- present tense form of coagulate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“What we are seeing is due to reentry of material—a mixture of burned-up meteors and spacecraft, which slowly coagulates to form particles that settle through the atmosphere,” he says.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Even post-distillation, there’s oil left in the spirit, but when they chill it, the fat coagulates and is then skimmed off.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021
Gelatin sets on cooling because the hot aqueous mixture of gelatin coagulates as it cools, yielding an extremely viscous body known as a gel.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Unfortunately, as Ms Yazji’s plot thickens, it coagulates.
From Economist ● Dec. 4, 2017
Criminologists had come to understand that blood coagulates at the lowest point of a body after death, producing dark splotches on the skin.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
