coagulate
verb (used with or without object)
to change from a fluid into a thickened mass; curdle; congeal.
was coagulating
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past progressiveof coagulate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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And at our backs the pleasant cottonball-cloud chaos of so many Southwest photographs was coagulating into the contused, lurid purple of a thunderstorm.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2010
Mack glanced at the burned curtains, at the floor glistening with whiskey and puppy dirt, at the bacon grease that was coagulating on the stove front.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
