英语词汇“congeal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	congeal
释义	con·geal \kənˈjēl, esp bef pause or cons -ēəl\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English congelen, from Middle French congeler, from Latin congelare, from com- + gelare to freeze — more at cold *transitive verb* 1. : to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold < congealed the water into ice > : freeze < tundra congealed forever by the arctic cold > 2. a. : to make (a liquid) viscid or of a consistency like jelly : curdle, coagulate b. obsolete : to make (a liquid) solid or crystalline 3. : to make rigid or inflexible : freeze into a pattern or system < congealing the speculations of Aristotle into authoritarian dogma > : make immobile : paralyze < a density of two hundred people to the acre would even further congeal traffic — Lewis Mumford > *intransitive verb* 1. : to grow hard, stiff, or thick from cold or other causes : freeze, coagulate < oil congeals in cold weather > 2. a. of a sentiment : to lose all warmth < his passion for the ballerina soon congealed > b. : to assume a fixed, rigid, or unchanging form or character < saw … factions cleaving classes and classes congealing into castes — Will Durant > < thought lost its vivacity, congealing into a closed system >
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