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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
/ 藞办蓽藧诲蓹濒 /
verb
- to turn or cause to turn into curd
- curdle someone's bloodto fill someone with fear
Derived Forms
- 藞肠耻谤诲濒别谤, noun
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
亚洲网紅露点 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 just a couple of decades later, that optimism began to curdle.
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 鈥渕eant well,鈥 curdled into flat-out fascist goose-stepping.
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.
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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