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.
was congealing
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past progressiveof congeal.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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It was also the clearest indication yet that the artist’s penchant for jagged emotional unpleasantness was congealing into a brand.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018
What matters is that he went after a body of conventional wisdom that was congealing into cant.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2014
It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
The thermometer registered 18 above zero, however, and the biting cold was congealing all lakes and pools very rapidly.
From On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake by Roy Rockwood
It had ceased to rain, and a frost was congealing the moisture under foot.
From The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
