uncongeal
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]uncongeal (third-person singular simple present uncongeals, present participle uncongealing, simple past and past participle uncongealed)
- (intransitive) To become liquid again; to thaw.
- 1833–1834 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “The Two Voices”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 143:
- Like soften'd airs that blowing steal, / When meres begin to uncongeal, / The sweet church bells began to peal.
- (transitive) To make less rigid
- (transitive) To become less rigid
References
[edit]- “uncongeal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.