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curdle
[ kur-dl ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to change into curd; coagulate; congeal.
- to spoil; turn sour.
- to go wrong; turn bad or fail:
Their friendship began to curdle as soon as they became business rivals.
curdle
/ ˈ°ìɜ˻åÉ™±ô /
verb
- to turn or cause to turn into curd
- curdle someone's bloodto fill someone with fear
Derived Forms
- ˈ³¦³Ü°ù»å±ô±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³¦³Ü°ùd±ô±ð°ù noun
- ²Ô´Ç²Ô·³¦³Ü°ùd±ô¾±²Ô²µ adjective noun
- ³Ü²Ô·³¦³Ü°ùd±ô±ð»å adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·³¦³Ü°ùd±ô¾±²Ô²µ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of curdle1
Idioms and Phrases
- curdle the / one's blood, to fill a person with horror or fear; terrify:
a scream that curdled the blood.
Example Sentences
But I think that people think sometimes you'd be like, 'Oh, cream and citrus together, it going to curdle?'
But after a while, meaning after the advent of Trump, their humorless, groping sincerity, which I indulged because of course they “meant well,†curdled into flat-out fascist goose-stepping.
“I can tell you, having talked to a lot of donors, their depression and despair has curdled into anger,†said Paul Begala, a strategist who twice helped put Bill Clinton in the White House.
In one dorm, a man showed commissioners a carton of fully curdled milk he said he’d received that day.
It turns out you can pay a lot for the privilege of real-time “re-enactments,†and he does, commissioning a series of increasingly elaborate set pieces whose pursuit soon curdles into monomania.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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