clot

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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
clot (noun)
1.
a portion of a substance adhering together in a thick nondescript mass (as of clay or gum)
2.
a) a roundish viscous lump formed by coagulation of a portion of liquid or by melting
b) a coagulated mass produced by of blood - clotting
3.
British - blockhead
4.
- cluster group a clot of spectators
clot (verb)
intransitive verb
1.
to become a clot form - clots
2.
transitive verb
to undergo a sequence of complex chemical and physical reactions that results in conversion of fluid blood into a coagulated mass - coagulate
1.
to cause to form into or as if into a clot
2.
to fill with clots , also - clog clotted streets
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
clot (noun)
1.
a number of things considered as a unit
SYNONYMS:
array, assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery, block, bunch, clot, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, constellation, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, muster, package, parcel, passel, set, suite
RELATED WORDS:
accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomeration; agglomeration, assortment, hodgepodge, jumble, miscellany, mixture, odds and ends, sundries, variety; cycle, run, series, suit
NEAR ANTONYMS:
entity, item, single, unit
clot (noun)
2.
a small uneven mass
SYNONYMS:
blob, chunk, clod, clot, clump, dollop, glob, gob, gobbet, hunk, knob, nub, nubble, nugget, wad
RELATED WORDS:
bead, drop, globule; block, body, bulk; particle, piece, portion; bit, chip, crumb, granule, morsel, nubbin, patch, scrap
clot (noun)
British
a stupid person
SYNONYMS:
airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead, chowderhead, chucklehead, clodpoll ( clodpole), clot, cluck, clunk, cretin, cuddy ( cuddie), deadhead, dim bulb, dimwit, dip, dodo, dolt, donkey, doofus, dope, dork, dullard, dumbbell, dumbhead, dum-dum, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, gander, golem, goof, goon, half-wit, hammerhead, hardhead, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, know-nothing, knucklehead, lamebrain, loggerhead, loon, lump, lunkhead, meathead, mome, moron, mug, mutt, natural, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull ( numbskull), oaf, pinhead, prat, ratbag, saphead, schlub ( shlub), schnook, simpleton, stock, stupe, stupid, thickhead, turkey, woodenhead, yahoo, yo-yo
RELATED WORDS:
booby, buffoon, fool, goose, loony, lunatic, madman, nut, zany; loser; gawk; featherbrain, scatterbrain; beast, boor, cad, churl, clown, creep, cur, heel, jerk, skunk, snake, stinker, villain; bimbette [], bimbo [], himbo
NEAR ANTONYMS:
egghead, intellect, intellectual, sage, thinker, whiz, wizard; polymath, Renaissance man; sharpie ( sharpy)
brain, genius
clot (verb)
1.
to prevent passage through by filling with something
SYNONYMS:
block, choke, clot, congest, dam, gum (up), jam, obstruct, occlude, plug (up), stop (up), stuff
RELATED WORDS:
bung, cork, spile, stopper, stopple; fill, gridlock, pack; fur, silt; flood, glut, inundate, overwhelm, swamp
NEAR ANTONYMS:
excavate, hollow (out), scoop (out); empty, lighten
clear, free, open (up), unblock, unclog, unplug, unstop
clot (verb)
2.
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
SYNONYMS:
clot, congeal, gel, gelate, gelatinize, jell, jelly, set
RELATED WORDS:
cake, concrete, firm (up), fix, freeze, harden, indurate, solidify, stiffen; condense, thicken; clump, curd, curdle, gum, lump (up)
NEAR ANTONYMS:
deliquesce, flux, fuse, liquefy ( liquify), melt, thaw
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