MEANING
To become, or cause to become, gel-like in consistency.
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Words that belong together
- gelatinize starch
- gelatinized material
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Heat gelatinized the starch in the sample.
The technician watched the material gelatinize before its color changed.
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Word forms
- Base
- gelatinize
- Past tense
- gelatinized
- Past participle
- gelatinized
- Present participle
- gelatinizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- gelatinize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are gelatinizing
- Present perfect
- have/has gelatinized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been gelatinizing
- Past
- gelatinized
- Past continuous
- was/were gelatinizing
- Past perfect
- had gelatinized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been gelatinizing
- Future
- will gelatinize
- Future continuous
- will be gelatinizing
- Future perfect
- will have gelatinized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been gelatinizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: gelatinize; gelatinizes; gelatinized; gelatinized; gelatinizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: gelatinizes.
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