coagulate
to change from a fluid into a thickened mass; curdle; congeal: Let the pudding stand two hours until it coagulates.
Biology. (of blood) to form a clot.
Physical Chemistry. (of colloidal particles) to flocculate or cause to flocculate by adding an electrolyte to an electrostatic colloid.
Obsolete. coagulated.
Origin of coagulate
1Other words for coagulate
Other words from coagulate
- co·ag·u·la·tion, noun
- co·ag·u·la·to·ry [koh-ag-yuh-luh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee], /koʊˈæg yə ləˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, co·ag·u·la·tive [koh-ag-yuh-ley-tiv, -luh-tiv], /koʊˈæg yəˌleɪ tɪv, -lə tɪv/, adjective
- an·ti·co·ag·u·lat·ing, adjective
- an·ti·co·ag·u·la·tion, noun, adjective
- non·co·ag·u·lat·ing, adjective
- non·co·ag·u·la·tion, noun
- non·co·ag·u·la·tive, adjective
- re·co·ag·u·late, verb, re·co·ag·u·lat·ed, re·co·ag·u·lat·ing.
- re·co·ag·u·la·tion, noun
- un·co·ag·u·lat·ed, adjective
- un·co·ag·u·lat·ing, adjective
- un·co·ag·u·la·tive, adjective
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How to use coagulate in a sentence
And we use them for all coagulations, indurations, refrigerations, and conservations of bodies.
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British Dictionary definitions for coagulate
to cause (a fluid, such as blood) to change into a soft semisolid mass or (of such a fluid) to change into such a mass; clot; curdle
chem to separate or cause to separate into distinct constituent phases
the solid or semisolid substance produced by coagulation
Origin of coagulate
1Derived forms of coagulate
- coagulable, adjective
- coagulability, noun
- coagulation, noun
- coagulative (kəʊˈæɡjʊlətɪv), adjective
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