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say it: koh-AG-yuh-layt
coagulate is a verb and adjective meaning "change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state". It carries 3 recorded senses.
change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
“coagulated blood”
cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass
“coagulated blood”
“curdled milk”
“grumous blood”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coagulate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.