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become thick or thicker
The sauce thickened
The egg yolk will inspissate -
make thick or thicker
inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch
Thicken the sauce -
make viscous or dense
thicken the sauce by adding flour
How To Use inspissate In A Sentence
- However, determined tunnelling into the inspissated mass of detail reveals some fascinating things.
- It was what the poets mean by an 'inspissated' gloom; it thickened day by day, as hope and self-confidence evaporated in thin clouds of disappointment. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
- The poison is obtained by boiling the root in water, until it attains the consistency of an inspissated juice. First footsteps in East Africa
- A spring of brine rises in the bed of a river, named Lofubu, and this the Bayenga inspissate by boiling, and sell the salt at market. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
- In these troughs the eggs, broken and stirred with shovels, remain exposed to the sun till the oily part, which swims on the surface, has time to inspissate. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
- The Soldiers which were kept on the Land Frontiers, to clear them of the Indians, taking their Range through a Piece of low Ground, about Forty Miles above the inhabited Parts of Patowmeck River, and resting themselves in the Woods of those low Grounds, observ'd an inspissate Juice, like Molasses, distilling from the Tree. The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts
- -- The drug called aloes is the bitter, resinous, inspissated juice of the leaves of various species of an arborescent plant of the lily family, with a developed stem and large succulent leaves, growing principally in tropical and sub-tropical regions, and having a wide extent of range, being produced in Borneo and the East, Africa, The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- It's like inspissated essence of urinal cake, it's just so flowery and hygenic. An essay about how when you're reading a Kindle in public, people don't see what book you're reading.
- In these studies, ‘mucous balls,’ an accumulation of inspissated mucus that adheres to the catheter tip, caused infrequent, but serious, complications.
- inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch