coagulate
verb /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪt/
/kəʊˈæɡjuleɪt/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they coagulate | /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪt/ /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪt/ |
| he / she / it coagulates | /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪts/ /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪts/ |
| past simple coagulated | /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪtɪd/ /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪtɪd/ |
| past participle coagulated | /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪtɪd/ /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form coagulating | /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪtɪŋ/ /kəʊˈæɡjuleɪtɪŋ/ |
- coagulate (something) if a liquid coagulates or something coagulates it, it becomes thick and partly solid synonym congeal
- Blood began to coagulate around the edges of the wound.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCoagulate is used with these nouns as the subject:- blood
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin coagulat- ‘curdled’, from the verb coagulare, from coagulum ‘rennet’.