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jähmettyä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • congeal verb To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
  • cure noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  • freeze verb To turn solid from cold, or to lower something's temperature until it does.
  • set verb To put something in a particular place or position.
  • solidify verb To become solid, or to make something firm and solid.
  • stiffen verb To make something rigid or less flexible.
  • wither verb To shrink, dry up, or lose freshness, especially from lack of water.

Senses

jähmettyä is used for these senses in English:

  • congeal (transitive) To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
  • freeze (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
  • freeze (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
  • freeze up (ambitransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
  • set (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
  • set up (intransitive) To gel or harden.
  • solidify (intransitive) To become solid; to freeze, set.
  • stiffen (intransitive) To become stiff.

congeal — full definition

  1. verb To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
  2. verb To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid such as gel or jelly.
  3. verb To make rigid or immobile.
  4. verb To become congealed, solidify.

cure — full definition

  1. noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  2. verb To restore someone to health, or to fix a problem completely.
  3. verb To preserve food, typically meat or fish, by salting, smoking, or drying.

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