jelly

verb

Definition of jellynext
as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly this fruit juice is taking longer to jelly than I expected

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Recent Examples of jelly The placement on Favre’s 350-yard shot had been dead-on and the lungs were jellied. — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 11 Dec. 2025 Small Batch is one of the few businesses in the region taking a chance on jellying the fruit, despite seeing little interest. — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2025 The depths are a swirl of tapioca, agar-agar and basil seeds like a hundred tiny eyes, jellied on the outside with a crunch within. — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 24 May 2018 From here, the longest run in the region is a leg-jellying 15 kilometer, 2,000-meter descent back down to Gaislachkogl. — CNN, 26 Oct. 2017 And according to TMZ, Miller will be noshing this first week on jellied toast for breakfast, hamburgers and fruit for lunch, sandwiches and wraps for dinner, and weekend meals of sloppy Joes and tacos. — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2017 Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts. — Meredith Blake, latimes.com, 15 May 2017 Or millions, all at once, literally jellying up the works. — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jelly
  1. gel
  2. freeze
Verb
  • At halftime, Irankunda and Metcalfe came on as substitutes, and the team started to gel and to threaten.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • Any apprehensions about whether a first-time collaboration between Hartford’s two largest self-producing theaters — Hartford Stage and TheaterWorks Hartford — could gel smoothly enough to grasp all the nuances of this challenging work are dispelled immediately by the opening number.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026
Definition of gel
Verb
  • Gupta considers the blanket rent freeze a blunt tool that doesn't adequately address the affordability crisis.
    — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Identity monitoring service Aura can also freeze your credit without requiring you to contact the credit bureaus.
    — Brian Sloan, CNBC, 3 July 2026
Definition of freeze

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“Jelly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jelly. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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