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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
/ ˈɜːə /
verb
to turn or cause to turn into curd
to fill someone with fear
Other Word Forms
- curdler noun
- noncurdling adjective
- uncurdled adjective
- uncurdling adjective
- ˈܰ noun
Word 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 of course then finance got involved, as it always does, and whatever that was curdled and was put on another track.
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 “meant well,” curdled into flat-out fascist goose-stepping.
“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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