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Curdle - What does it mean?

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curdle

English

Verb

(curdl)
  • (ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
    • Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
  • (ambitransitive) To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
  • * 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
    • "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle , "beware of to-morrow!"
  • To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly
  • * 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    • It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.'

    Derived terms

    * curdled

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