as in gelled
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
this fruit juice is taking longer to jelly than I expected
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Recent Examples of jellied
Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
These remained meals are common in French and Eastern European cooking, such as Polish jellied pig's feet or Russian kholodets, and even appear in Chinese soup dumplings, according to Tasting Table.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 15 Nov. 2025
Often, cranberries were simply dumped from a can, either jellied or sauced.
—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
The Test Kitchen skipped the usual grape jelly and chili sauce and used jellied cranberry sauce and hot jalapeño pepper jelly.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for jellied
Adjective
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The gelatinous blob uses a hood surrounding its head to catch prey and has detachable tentacles; its hood and tail are decorated with glowing blue-green dots.—
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Further analysis of museum specimens’ stomach contents confirmed that seven-arm octopus feeds on jellyfish and other gelatinous animals.—
Verb
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From a distance, A’zion’s hairline disappeared under her bangs, which were gelled into tiny ripples on her forehead.—
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Yet the band’s formula gelled when Malo and Reynolds switched places, with the former eventually becoming the primary songwriter and producer.—
Adjective
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At Zain’s house, Yazid perched at the edge of his seat and stood up every time Zain’s mother came into the room, bringing first pomegranate sherbet, then food, several dishes served on a low table set in front of the sofa, and even a dessert, carrot halvah with clotted cream.—
Verb
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Michael Carroll’s son stiffened — a cold jolt running through him — when his shovel struck what looked like rags and bones in the basement on Halloween eve 2018.—
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Here, it is mated to a six-speed manual transmission, and the suspension has been stiffened a little for a sportier feel.—
Verb
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In implementing its measures, officials froze or changed at least 131 scholarships across UT System and Texas A&M University System institutions, which could no longer have race or gender criteria, the Dallas Morning News reported.—
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Before the new year, the federal Administration for Children and Families froze all funding to Minnesota.—
Verb
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Behind an offensive line that has congealed into an elite unit in recent weeks, McCaffrey has hit his season-long runs in back-to-back weeks.—
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While the rest of Burning Man celebrated, Kruglov lay prostrate on the ground at a faraway campsite in a comparatively desolate section of Black Rock City, his throat slashed, as a puddle of blood congealed around his lifeless body.—
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For many of the protesters, a general sense of lawlessness – not supported by official crime figures for England and Wales, which broadly show a decrease over the past decade – had coagulated into a specific fear of migrants.—
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The realization seemed to harden their resolve, and jelled into one of the most efficient political movements to hit Washington in decades.—
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This last couple of them jelled.—
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“Jellied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jellied. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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