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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | brown with heat |
| Synonyms: | cook, crisp, dry, grill, heat, parch, roast, warm |
| Main Entry: | wither |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | droop, decline |
| Synonyms: | atrophy, become stale, blast, blight, collapse, constrict, contract, decay, deflate, desiccate, deteriorate, die, disintegrate, dry, dry up, fade, fold, languish, perish, shrink, shrivel, wane, waste, waste away, wilt, wizen |
| Notes: | whither is an adverb meaning 'to what place' or a conjunction meaning 'to which place or condition'; wither is a verb meaning 'to dry up or shrivel' |
| Antonyms: | bloom, grow |
| Main Entry: | gelatinize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | coagulate |
| Synonyms: | clabber, clot, coalesce, compact, concentrate, concrete, condense, congeal, consolidate, curdle, dry, gel, gelate, glop up, harden, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, lopper, set, solidify, thicken |
| Main Entry: | indurate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | harden |
| Synonyms: | acclimate, acclimatize, amalgamate, anneal, bake, brace, buttress, cake, calcify, callous, caseharden, cement, close, clot, coagulate, compact, concrete, congeal, consolidate, contract, crystallize, curdle, densify, dry, firm, fix*, fortify, fossilize, freeze, gird, jell, nerve, ossify, petrify, precipitate, press, reinforce, season, set, settle, solidify, starch, steel, stiffen, strengthen, temper, thicken, toughen, vitrify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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