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curdle

[ kur-dl ]

verb (used with or without object)

curdled, curdling.
  1. to change into curd; coagulate; congeal.
  2. to spoil; turn sour.
  3. 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

  1. to turn or cause to turn into curd
  2. curdle someone's blood
    to fill someone with fear
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¦³Ü°ù»å±ô±ð°ù, noun
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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
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of curdle1

First recorded in 1580–90; curd + -le
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of curdle1

C16 ( crudled, past participle): from curd
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. curdle the / one's blood, to fill a person with horror or fear; terrify:

    a scream that curdled the blood.

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Example Sentences

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But I think that people think sometimes you'd be like, 'Oh, cream and citrus together, it going to curdle?'

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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.

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“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.

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In one dorm, a man showed commissioners a carton of fully curdled milk he said he’d received that day.

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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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