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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

/ ˈɜːə /

verb

  1. to turn or cause to turn into curd

  2. to fill someone with fear

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Other Word Forms

  • curdler noun
  • noncurdling adjective
  • uncurdled adjective
  • uncurdling adjective
  • ˈܰ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of curdle1

First recorded in 1580–90; curd + -le
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Word 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 of course then finance got involved, as it always does, and whatever that was curdled and was put on another track.

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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 “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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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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