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Date: 1500-1600
Origin: curd

curdle

 verb
     
Related topics: Food
cur‧dle [intransitive and transitive]
1DF to become thicker or form curd, or to make a liquid do this:
Milk may curdle in warm weather.
2

make your blood curdle

to make you very frightened
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