MEANING
To change from a fluid into a clot or thickened mass, especially when blood forms a clot.
Use it for
Blood thickening after injury; a fluid developing lumps; material losing free flowReplace static gore with a visible change in consistency.
Words that belong together
- blood coagulates
- coagulated blood
- coagulate into a mass
On the page
Blood began to coagulate along the tray's edge.
The sample coagulated before they could examine it.
She watched the red fluid coagulate into irregular clumps.
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Word forms
- Base
- coagulate / coagulates
- Past tense
- coagulated
- Past participle
- coagulated
- Present participle
- coagulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- coagulate / coagulates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are coagulating
- Present perfect
- have/has coagulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been coagulating
- Past
- coagulated
- Past continuous
- was/were coagulating
- Past perfect
- had coagulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been coagulating
- Future
- will coagulate / coagulates
- Future continuous
- will be coagulating
- Future perfect
- will have coagulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been coagulating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Specific clotting or aggregation, not necessarily cooling. Congeal is broader solidification; do not imply that all thick fluid has coagulated. Verb [base, third-person present, past, past participle, -ing]: coagulate, coagulates, coagulated, coagulated, coagulating. Derived/related family (not inflections): coagulation and coagulant (nouns).
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