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clot

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//klɒt//
  • United Kingdom//klɔt//
  • United States//klɑt//
  • Canada//klɒt//
  • //klɔt//

A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.

noun

  1. 1

    A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.

  2. 2

    A solidified mass of any liquid.

    and nothing elſe but euen, A heauie lump and clottred clod of ſeedes togither driuen)

    Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.

  3. 3

    A person who is silly, stupid, dull, a clod.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gel-der. Proto-Germanic *kluttaz Proto-West Germanic *klott Old English clott Middle English clot English clot 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.

verb

  1. 1

    To form a clot or mass.

    When there is a wounded area on the body, the natural response is for platelets in the blood to clot to plug the wound.

  2. 2

    To cause to clot or form into a mass.

    They didn't explode into blood and clotted matter.

Forms

plural
clots
past tense
clotted
past participle
clotted
present participle
clotting
third person singular
clots
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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