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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

/ 藞办蓽藧诲蓹濒 /

verb

  1. to turn or cause to turn into curd
  2. curdle someone's blood
    to fill someone with fear
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞肠耻谤诲濒别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠耻谤顎僤濒别谤 noun
  • 苍辞苍路肠耻谤顎僤濒颈苍驳 adjective noun
  • 耻苍路肠耻谤顎僤濒别诲 adjective
  • 耻苍路肠耻谤顎僤濒颈苍驳 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of curdle1

First recorded in 1580鈥90; curd + -le
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of curdle1

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

Idioms
  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 just a couple of decades later, that optimism began to curdle.

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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 鈥渕eant well,鈥 curdled into flat-out fascist goose-stepping.

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鈥淚 can tell you, having talked to a lot of donors, their depression and despair has curdled into anger,鈥 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鈥檇 received that day.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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