congeal
verb (used with or without object)
to change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing.
half-congealed
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a word derived from
congeal.
Example Sentences
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Always half-congealed, brownish, sticky, stinking, it made its bold manipulators sick for an hour.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
The tide was nearly full, and the river covered with half-congealed snow and ice.
From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux
The streets and roads were transformed into pools of half-congealed mud.
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham
Oh, how it makes the northern heart, With sluggish current half-congealed, In ecstasy and vigor start To read about this tropic field; The garden of luxuriousness, In winter wearing summer's dress.
From Poems Vol. IV by Hattie Howard
This was not especially bad, the worst places being at the hollows between the hills where the mud was half-congealed.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
