1.
[syn: curdle, clabber, clot]
2. go bad or sour;
- Example: "The milk curdled"
3. turn from a liquid to a solid mass;
- Example: "his blood curdled"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Curdle \Cur"dle\ (k[^u]r"d'l), v. i. [From Curd.] [Sometimes
written crudle and cruddle.]
1. To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk
to curdle. --Thomson.
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2. To thicken; to congeal.
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Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold.
--Southey.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Curdle \Cur"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curdled (-d'ld); p. pr.
& vb. n. Curdling (-dl[i^]ng).]
1. To change into curd; to cause to coagulate. "To curdle
whites of eggs" --Boyle.
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2. To congeal or thicken.
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My chill blood is curdled in my veins. --Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
curdle
v 1: turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clabber,
clot] [ant: homogenise, homogenize]
2: go bad or sour; "The milk curdled"
3: turn from a liquid to a solid mass; "his blood curdled"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "curdle":
beat up, cake, churn, clabber, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate,
colloid, colloidize, concrete, condense, congeal, cream, curd,
emulsify, emulsionize, ferment, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize,
go off, incrassate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knot, lopper,
lump, set, sour, spoil, thick, thicken, turn, whip