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cur·dle

(kûr′dl)

v. cur·dled, cur·dling, cur·dles

v.intr.

a. To change into curd.

b. To become congealed or lumpy: The sauce curdled in the pan.

2. To become spoiled or transformed into something bad: Warm feelings curdled into distrust.

v.tr.

1. To cause to curdle, congeal, or become lumpy: "The inlet was curdled with slush" (Alyson Carol Hagy).

2. To cause to be spoiled or transformed into something bad: "an event that curdled whatever goodwill the prince had awakened" (Julia Whitty).

[Frequentative of curd.]

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Noun

curdling - the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid

clotting, coagulation

blood clotting, blood coagulation - a process in which liquid blood is changed into a semisolid mass (a blood clot)

natural action, natural process, action, activity - a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"

thermocoagulation - congealing tissue by heat (as by electric current)

Translations

cagliatura

коагулирование

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No -- better still, he would join the Indians, and hunt buffaloes and go on the warpath in the mountain ranges and the trackless great plains of the Far West, and away in the future come back a great chief, bristling with feathers, hideous with paint, and prance into Sunday- school, some drowsy summer morning, with a blood- curdling war-whoop, and sear the eyeballs of all his companions with unappeasable envy.

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They had come almost to the spot when their ears were assailed by the weird and blood curdling yells of native warriors, and a moment later von Horn's escort dashed into view in full retreat.

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