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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | thicken |
| Synonyms: | add, buttress, cake, clabber, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, curdle, deepen, enlarge, expand, freeze, gel, grow thick, harden, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, reinforce, solidify, stiffen, swell, widen |
| Main Entry: | stiffen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become harder |
| Synonyms: | anneal, benumb, brace, cake, candy, cement, chill, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, crystallize, curdle, firm, fix, freeze, gel, harden, inflate, inspissate, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, precipitate, prop, reinforce, set, solidify, stabilize, starch, steady, strengthen, tauten, tense, thicken |
| Antonyms: | liquefy, loosen, melt |
| Main Entry: | thicken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set; make more dense |
| Synonyms: | add, buttress, cake, clabber, clot, coagulate, condense, congeal, curdle, deepen, enlarge, expand, freeze, gel, grow thick, harden, inspissate, jell, jelly, ossify, petrify, reinforce, solidify, stiffen, swell, widen |
| Antonyms: | dilute, liquefy, melt, thin, water down |
| 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 |
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