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jellify

American  
[jel-uh-fahy] / ˈdʒɛl əˌfaɪ /

verb (used with object)

jellified, jellifying
  1. to make into a jelly; reduce to a gelatinous state.


verb (used without object)

jellified, jellifying
  1. to turn into jelly; become gelatinous.

jellify British  
/ ˈdʒɛlɪˌfaɪ /

verb

  1. to make into or become jelly

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of jellify

First recorded in 1800–10; jelly + -fy

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"Drene," he said, "is one of those fussers who jellify when hurled on their necks—the kind that ask that kind of girl to marry them after she's turned down everything else they suggest."

From Between Friends by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

They shun many textures beloved elsewhere, like the chewiness of tripe or the jellified tendon in pho.

From New York Times May 9, 2023

Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours, or until the stock is jellified and fat has formed a solid lid.

From Salon Jan. 5, 2020

The doctor who had taken him up dropped him still jellified with ether-nausea, at Moundville, to walk the seven miles home.

From Slate Jun. 12, 2013

He crashed into the lockers and tried to hold himself up, but his legs jellified and down he went.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The jeweller nearly fainted with alarm, and poor "Butterfingers" was completely jellified with fear.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various

To disguise my sex and identity—for it was a priori almost impossible that the inhabitants of Wenus had never heard of Pozzuoli—would guard me from the jellifying Mash-Glance of the Wenuses.

From The War of the Wenuses by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

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