Curdle

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: cur=dle

CIDE DICTIONARY

Curdle, v. i. [From Curd.].

•  To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.  Thomson.  [1913 Webster]
•  To thicken; to congeal.  [1913 Webster]

  "Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold."  [1913 Webster]

Curdle, v. t. 

•  To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.  Boyle.  [1913 Webster]
•  To congeal or thicken.  [1913 Webster]

  "My chill blood is curdled in my veins."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Curdle, v.tr. & intr. make into or become curds; congeal.

Idiom

make one's blood curdle fill one with horror.

Derivative

curdler n.

Etymology

frequent. form of CURD (as verb)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Curdle

Density

VB be dense, become solid, render solid, solidify, solidate, concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate, curd, curdle, lopper, fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere, crystallize, petrify, condense, thicken, gel, inspissate, incrassate, compress, squeeze, ram down, constipate.