Antonyms for gels
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : jel |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʒɛl |
- abridge
- ascend
- cause
- compress
- contract
- decrease
- dilute
- diminish
- discourage
- disperse
- displace
- dissolve
- dissuade
- divide
- end
- enlarge
- finish
- go up
- halt
- heat
- hinder
- lessen
- liquefy
- liquidate
- liquify
- loose
- loosen
- lower
- melt
- open
- reduce
- remove
- rise
- separate
- shrink
- soften
- stay
- stop
- subtract
- thin
- unclot
- unfix
- water down
- weaken
Definition of gels
Origin :- 1899, as a chemical term, short for gelatin and perhaps influenced by jell. The invention of this word is credited to Scottish chemist Thomas Graham (1805-1869). Hair-styling sense is from 1958. The verb meaning "to become a gel" is attested by 1902; figurative sense is from 1958. Related: Gelled; gelling.
- As in jell : verb coagulate
- As in set : verb harden
- As in stiffen : verb make or become harder
- As in thicken : verb set; make more dense
- As in befall : verb happen to; take place
- As in transpire : verb occur, happen
- As in gelatinize : verb coagulate
- As in inspissate : verb thicken
- As in clot : verb coagulate
- As in coagulate : verb clot
- As in congeal : verb coagulate
- Oh the gels are walking on the pierAnd I'll soon be home to you, my dear.
- Extract from : « The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties » by Richard Runciman Terry
- The whole sequence might collapse; or it might call the Gels.
- Extract from : « It Could Be Anything » by John Keith Laumer
- You never see the Gels, never discover the secret of the golems—because you conform.
- Extract from : « It Could Be Anything » by John Keith Laumer
- Young folks is young folks, and there ain't too many boys for the gels.
- Extract from : « The Place Beyond the Winds » by Harriet T. Comstock
- But never you mind, doctor; gels always will be gels and listen to chaps like Squire Tom.
- Extract from : « The Man with a Shadow » by George Manville Fenn
- Ive got my dose, an Im bound for Blighty, he said, an gels chuckin flowers in the ambulance in Lunnon.
- Extract from : « Grapes of wrath » by Boyd Cable
- The latter are the common type of gels among organic colloids.
- Extract from : « The Chemistry of Plant Life » by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
- You love yer tummy better'n the gels—and a fairer deal it is, too.
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel » by Mary E. Hanshew
- The Gels know something's wrong, but they can't quite figure out what.
- Extract from : « It Could Be Anything » by John Keith Laumer
- What with the States and the toll to death, the gels can't be too particular, not casting my flings at Jerry-Jo, either.
- Extract from : « The Place Beyond the Winds » by Harriet T. Comstock
Synonyms for gels
- action
- add
- anneal
- arise
- bechance
- become firm
- befall
- benumb
- betide
- brace
- break
- buttress
- cake
- candy
- cement
- chance
- chill
- clabber
- clot
- coagulate
- coalesce
- cohere
- come about
- come down
- come off
- come to pass
- come together
- compact
- concentrate
- concrete
- condense
- congeal
- consolidate
- cook
- cook up a storm
- cook with gas
- crystallize
- curdle
- deepen
- develop
- dry
- enlarge
- ensue
- eventuate
- expand
- fall
- fall out
- finalize
- firm
- fix
- follow
- form
- freeze
- gel
- gelate
- gelatinate
- gelatinize
- glob up
- glop up
- go
- go down
- grow thick
- hap
- happen
- harden
- indurate
- inflate
- inspissate
- jell
- jellify
- jelly
- lopper
- lump
- materialize
- occur
- ossify
- petrify
- precipitate
- prop
- refrigerate
- reinforce
- result
- set
- shake
- smoke
- solidify
- stabilize
- starch
- steady
- stick
- stiffen
- strengthen
- supervene
- swell
- take place
- take shape
- tauten
- tense
- thicken
- transpire
- turn up
- widen
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