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jell


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PRONUNCIATION:

(jel)

MEANING:

verb intr.:	1. To become clear, cohesive, or definite.
	2. To become firm or gelatinous; to congeal.
verb tr.:	1. To cause to become clear, cohesive, or definite.
	2. To make firm or gelatinous.

ETYMOLOGY:

Back-formation from jelly, from Old French gelee (jelly), from Latin gelata (frozen), from gelare (to freeze). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gel- (to freeze), which also gave us cold, chill, gelato, glacier, and congeal. Earliest documented use: 1863. See also Jell-O.

USAGE:

“Yet the hundreds of rebel groups, despite their efforts to coordinate, have failed to jell into a coherent army with a chain of command.”
Syria’s Civil War; The Economist (London, UK); Feb 23, 2013.

See more usage examples of jell in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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