| Main Entry: | clot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coagulate |
Synonyms: |
clabber, coalesce, congeal, curdle, gel, gelate, gelatinize, glop up, jell, jellify, jelly, lopper, lump, set, solidify, thicken |
Antonyms: |
loose, thin |
| Main Entry: | congeal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coagulate |
Synonyms: |
cake, clabber, clot, concrete, condense, curdle, dry, freeze, gel, gelate, gelatinate, gelatinize, glob up, harden, indurate, jell, jellify, jelly, refrigerate, set, solidify, stiffen, thicken |
Antonyms: |
dissolve, liquify, melt, separate, thin |
| Main Entry: | harden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become solid |
Synonyms: |
amalgamate, anneal, bake, brace, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, cement, close, clot, coagulate, compact, congeal, consolidate, contract, crystallize, curdle, densify, dry, firm, fix, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gird, indurate, jell, nerve, ossify, petrify, precipitate, press, reinforce, set, settle, solidify, starch, steel, stiffen, strengthen, temper, thicken, toughen, vitrify |
Antonyms: |
liquefy, melt, soften |
| Main Entry: | jell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coagulate |
Synonyms: |
clot, cohere, come together, condense, congeal, crystallize, finalize, form, freeze, gel, gelate, gelatinize, harden, jellify, jelly, materialize, set, solidify, stick, stiffen, take shape, thicken |
Antonyms: |
liquidate, melt |
| Main Entry: | set |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harden |
Synonyms: |
become firm, cake, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, crystallize, fix, gel, gelate, gelatinize, jell, jellify, jelly, solidify, stiffen, thicken |
| Notes: | to set is to place something; to sit is to be seated |
Antonyms: |
liquefy, soften |
| Main Entry: | solidify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harden |
Synonyms: |
amalgamate, anneal, bake, cake, cement, clot, coagulate, cohere, congeal, crystallize, densify, dry, firm, freeze, jell, petrify, set, stiffen, strengthen, thicken |
| Main Entry: | stiffen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become harder |
Synonyms: |
anneal, benumb, brace, cake, candy, cement, chill, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, crystallize, curdle, firm, fix, freeze, gel, harden, inflate, inspissate, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, precipitate, prop, reinforce, set, solidify, stabilize, starch, steady, strengthen, tauten, tense, thicken |
Antonyms: |
liquefy, loosen, melt |
| Main Entry: | thick |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concentrated, dense |
Synonyms: |
caked, clabbered, close, clotted, coagulated, compact, compressed, concrete, condensed, congealed, consolidated, crowded, curdled, deep, firm, fixed, gelatinous, gloppy, gooey, gummous, gummy, gunky, heavy, impenetrable, impervious, jelled, jellied, opaque, ossified, ropy, set, sloppy, solid, solidified, stiff, syrupy, thickened, turbid, viscid, viscous, vitrified |
Antonyms: |
diluted, loose, thin, watery |
| Main Entry: | thicken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set; make more dense |
Synonyms: |
add, buttress, cake, clabber, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, curdle, deepen, enlarge, expand, freeze, gel, grow thick, harden, inspissate, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, reinforce, solidify, stiffen, swell, widen |
Antonyms: |
dilute, liquefy, melt, thin, water down |
| Main Entry: | gelatinize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coagulate |
Synonyms: |
clabber, clot, coalesce, compact, concentrate, concrete, condense, congeal, consolidate, curdle, dry, gel, gelate, glop up, harden, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, lopper, set, solidify, thicken |