clot

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to coalesce or unite in a mass

   Blood clots.

2. 2
   verb

   to change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state

   The blood clots in order to stop you from losing all your blood.

From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”). Doublet of clod and klutz.

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