verb (used without object)
- to congeal; become jellylike in consistency.
- to become clear, substantial, or definite; crystallize: The plan began to jell once we all met to discuss it.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to jell.
verb jells, jelling, jelled, gels, gelling or gelled
- to make or become gelatinous; congeal
- (intr) to assume definite formhis ideas have jelled
noun
- US an informal word for jelly 1
1830, American English, probably a back-formation of jelly (v.). Related: Jelled; jelling. Figurative sense is first attested 1908. Middle English had gelen “congeal,” but it disappeared 15c.