klonteren — meaning in English

English meaning

• clot noun A thickened, partly solid lump formed from a liquid, especially blood.
• curdle verb To turn into lumps, or to make something do this, usually said of milk going off.
• lump noun A solid piece or mass of something without a definite shape.

Senses

klonteren is used for these senses in English:

• clot (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.
• curdle (ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
• curdle (ambitransitive) To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
• lump (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).

clot — full definition

1. noun A thickened, partly solid lump formed from a liquid, especially blood.
2. verb To thicken and form a solid lump.
3. noun A silly or foolish person (informal, chiefly British).

curdle — full definition

1. verb To turn into lumps, or to make something do this, usually said of milk going off.
2. verb To form clots or thicken, or to make something congeal, for instance through cold; used figuratively of blood.
3. verb To make a liquid go off and turn lumpy.

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