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to coagulate
01
to change from a liquid to a semi-solid or solid state, often through the process of clotting or curdling
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
coagulate
3rd person singular
coagulates
Present participle
coagulating
Past simple
coagulated
Past participle
coagulated
Examples
When making homemade yogurt, the milk begins to coagulate as the live cultures work to thicken it.
02
to cause a liquid to change into a thicker, semi-solid, or solid state
Examples
The chef coagulated the cream by adding rennet.
coagulate
01
having changed from a liquid into a soft, semi-solid, or solid mass
Grammatical Information
Composition
past participle adjective
qualitative
Superlative
most coagulate
Comparative
more coagulate
gradable
Examples
The coagulate blood had clotted on the wound.
Lexical Tree
coagulated
coagulation
coagulator
coagulate
coagul
