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inspissate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb inspissate has 3 senses
- inspissate(v = verb.change) thicken - make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour" is one way to change integrity
- inspissate(v = verb.change) thicken - make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch" is one way to alter, change, modify
- inspissate(v = verb.change) thicken - become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate" is one way to change state, turn
Derived forms noun inspissation2, noun inspissation1
Sample sentences:
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Derived form noun inspissation2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived form noun inspissation2
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
inspissate, v. t. [L. inspissatus, p. p. of inspissare to thicken; pref. in- + spissare to thicken, fr. spissus thick.].
To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation. [1913 Webster]
inspissate, a. [L. inspissatus, p. p.].
Thick or thickened; inspissated. Greenhill. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inspissate, v.tr. literary thicken; condense.
Derivative
inspissation n.
Etymology
LL inspissare inspissat- (as IN-(2), L spissus thick)
THESAURUS
inspissate
beat up, cake, caked, cakey, churn, clabber, clabbered, clot, clotted, clump, cluster, coagulate, coagulated, colloid, colloidize, concrete, congeal, congealed, cream, curd, curded, curdle, curdled, emulsify, emulsionize, fatten, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, gelatinized, grow thick, grumous, incrassate, inspissated, jell, jelled, jellied, jellify, jelly, knot, lopper, lump, lumpish, lumpy, set, thick, thicken, thickened, whipROGET THESAURUS
inspissate
Density
VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.Semiliquidity
VB inspissate, incrassate, thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up, sinter.
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