coagulate

But anger, irritation and a fear of imminent defeat can coagulate in ways individuals often can't control.

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

In the early 2000s, the Washington Aqueduct came under fire again for releasing high amounts of alum, a substance used to coagulate sediments to filter them from the water, into the Potomac River.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2022

Working quickly ensures that the cheese doesn't have time to coagulate on the bottom of the pan and the pasta water doesn't lose its heat.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2021

Plasma infusion is an approved use by the FDA in trauma settings or in patients whose blood doesn’t coagulate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2019

After suctioning the mucus from my nostrils, she gave me a shot of vitamin K to coagulate my blood.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

But perhaps their unique feature is how their blood, which is bright blue, coagulates when exposed to harmful bacterial endotoxins, a feature that has kept them alive for about 450 million years.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021

Gelatin sets on cooling because the hot aqueous mixture of gelatin coagulates as it cools, yielding an extremely viscous body known as a gel.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

Unfortunately, as Ms Yazji’s plot thickens, it coagulates.

From Economist ● Dec. 4, 2017

Biacuplasty coagulates the nerves in the discs, he says, and there’s a chance it may even help heal fissures or cracks in degenerated discs.

From US News ● Sep. 20, 2016

Criminologists had come to understand that blood coagulates at the lowest point of a body after death, producing dark splotches on the skin.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Cream-based dips can get coagulated in the heat and stiff in the cold, especially if you don’t have a portable heating device, so a neutral mixed bean dip is definitely the way to go.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2025

But tofu can also harbor some residual whey, a byproduct of when soy milk is coagulated so it turns into curds.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022

In the United States, the game show “Fear Factor” challenged contestants to eat foods with ingredients like fish eyes, cow bile and coagulated blood paste.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

Today, the term has coagulated around the idea of a Type A self-motivated woman who derives strength from her conception of her gender.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2018

I got mop and pail, sprayed a room with disinfectant, and scrubbed at coagulated blood and hardened dog, rat, and rabbit feces.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

He’ll certainly do the same thing about the blood coagulating at the bottom of his body.

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025

The Ohio Republican dipped an unjacketed shoulder through the coagulating throng and attempted to push through.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

Early tests involved coagulating macadamia, cashew, oat and almond milks.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2021

And yet power, seeping out of the American system, seemed to be coagulating nowhere. 

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2014

He felt the evil coagulating about him, and he was helpless to protect himself.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck