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verb (used with object), verb (used without object), cur·dled, cur·dling.
Idiom1.
to change into curd; coagulate; congeal.
2.
to spoil; turn sour.
3.
to go wrong; turn bad or fail: Their friendship began to curdle as soon as they became business rivals.
4.
curdle the/one's blood, to fill a person with horror or fear; terrify: a scream that curdled the blood.
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Curdling
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| curdling | |
noun | |
| the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid |
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