jähmettyä — meaning in English
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English meaning
- congeal verb To turn from a liquid into a solid, often because it has gone cold.
- 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
- verb To turn from a liquid into a solid, often because it has gone cold.
- verb To thicken into a soft, jelly-like lump.
- verb To make something stiff and unable to move.
- verb To go hard and set firm.
cure — full definition
- noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
- verb To restore someone to health, or to fix a problem completely.
- verb To preserve food, typically meat or fish, by salting, smoking, or drying.
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