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Synonyms for caking
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : keyk |
| Phonetic Transcription : keɪk |
Top 10 synonyms for caking Other synonyms for the word caking
- acclimatize
- add
- amalgamate
- anneal
- bake
- band
- become firm
- benumb
- bloom
- border
- brace
- buttress
- cake
- caking
- calcify
- callous
- candy
- caseharden
- chill
- clabber
- close
- clot
- coagulate
- coat
- cohere
- compact
- concrete
- concretion
- condense
- congeal
- consolidate
- contract
- covering
- crystallize
- curdle
- deepen
- densify
- dry
- edge
- encrustation
- enlarge
- expand
- film
- firm
- fortify
- fossilize
- freeze
- gel
- gelate
- gelatinate
- gelatinize
- gird
- glob up
- grow thick
- harden
- hull
- incrustation
- indurate
- inflate
- inspissate
- integument
- jell
- jellify
- jelly
- nerve
- ossify
- outside
- petrify
- precipitate
- press
- prop
- refrigerate
- rind
- scab
- season
- set
- settle
- shell
- solidify
- starch
- steady
- steel
- stiffen
- tauten
- temper
- tense
- thicken
- toughen
- verge
- vitrify
- widen
Définition of caking
Origin :- c.1600, from cake (n.). Related: Caked; caking.
- As in crust : noun stiff outer layer; coating
- As in set : verb harden
- As in solidify : verb harden
- As in stiffen : verb make or become harder
- As in thicken : verb set; make more dense
- As in indurate : verb harden
- As in inspissate : verb thicken
- As in congeal : verb coagulate
- As in harden : verb make or become solid
- There are two varieties of cubical coal; the open-burning and the caking.
- Extract from : « A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines » by Andrew Ure
- Joe was watersoaked to the skin, and mud was caking on his clothes.
- Extract from : « The Forest of Mystery » by James H. Foster
- The hot sweat began to streak the caking grime upon their faces.
- Extract from : « The Shepherd of the North » by Richard Aumerle Maher
- Snow fell steadily, caking her hood and penetrating the woolen suit.
- Extract from : « Behind the Green Door » by Mildred A. Wirt
- War is a muddy business, encasing the body in dirt, and caking over the soul.
- Extract from : « Thoughts on religion at the front » by Neville Stuart Talbot
- A caking of dust on the torso of his jacket showed where the blood had oozed from a bullet wound in the chest, and quickly dried.
- Extract from : « The Wolf Cub » by Patrick Casey
- Of course they were muddy, but I remember beneath the caking of the clay that they were of new leather.
- Extract from : « With the Doughboy in France » by Edward Hungerford
- The caking property is best developed in coals low in oxygen with 25 to 30% of volatile matters.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 » by Various
- The property of caking or yielding a coherent coke is usually absent, and the ash is often very high.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 » by Various
- A sort of scale or caking in long, long time grows over original feelings.
- Extract from : « Amaryllis at the Fair » by Richard Jefferies
Antonyms for caking
- abridge
- ascend
- be intolerant
- center
- compress
- continue
- contract
- core
- decrease
- dilute
- diminish
- discourage
- dishearten
- disjoin
- displace
- dissolve
- dissuade
- divide
- end
- enlarge
- finish
- flex
- go up
- halt
- heat
- hinder
- hurt
- indulge
- inside
- interior
- lessen
- let go
- liquefy
- liquify
- loosen
- lower
- melt
- middle
- open
- reduce
- remove
- rise
- separate
- shrink
- soften
- spoil
- subtract
- thin
- unfix
- unsettle
- upset
- water down
- weaken
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