CURDLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curdling mean? 

• CURDLING (noun)
  The noun CURDLING has 1 sense:

1. the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid

  Familiarity information: CURDLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURDLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

clotting; coagulation; curdling

Hypernyms ("curdling" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curdling"):

blood clotting; blood coagulation (a process in which liquid blood is changed into a semisolid mass (a blood clot))

thermocoagulation (congealing tissue by heat (as by electric current))

Derivation:

curdle (turn from a liquid to a solid mass)

curdle (go bad or sour)

curdle (turn into curds)

 Context examples 

I heard a great infuriated bellow go up from Wolf Larsen, and from Leach a snarling that was desperate and blood-curdling.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

White Fang, near the corner of the cabin and forty feet away, was snarling with blood-curdling viciousness, not at Scott, but at the dog- musher.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Issue associated with the undesired characterization of congealing, solidifying, thickening, curdling.

(Coagulation in Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as historical in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer wonder tales in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This it was, I am certain,—the most indescribable of blood-curdling sounds,—that threw me into a panic.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A stranger could not hear this note, and to such a stranger the growling of White Fang was an exhibition of primordial savagery, nerve-racking and blood-curdling.

(White Fang, by Jack London)