The process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing.
1 He seemed coming to life, as if sap were trickling from winter - congealment .
2 On the pitch at the Alvogenvollurinn the second half is a slow congealment towards a scoreless draw.
3 This process is called cooling and congealment .
4 Moreover, Gnulemah developed rapidly, while Nurse underwent a process of gradual congealment , - her wits and emotions became torpid.
5 There is congealment in despair.
7 The atmosphere, though, was noticeably distinct from the strange sense of toxic congealment that tends to accompany a men's international match.
8 For one second she clung to her son, and then, disengaging herself, froze up like the sudden congealment of a spring.
9 These sudden congealments in the state of reverie, which a single word suffices to evoke, do occur.
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