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Curdled

Curdle \Cur"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curdled (-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Curdling (-dl[i^]ng).]

  1. To change into curd; to cause to coagulate. ``To curdle whites of eggs''
    --Boyle.

  2. To congeal or thicken.

    My chill blood is curdled in my veins.
    --Dryden.

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curdled
  1. 1 Containing curds. 2 coagulated v

  2. (en-past of: curdle)

WordNet
curdled

adj. transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; "coagulated blood"; "curdled milk"; "grumous blood" [syn: coagulate, coagulated, grumous, grumose]

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Curdled (film)

Curdled is a 1996 black comedy film written and directed by Reb Braddock. The film stars Angela Jones as a Colombian immigrant who takes a crime scene cleanup job, and discovers evidence about a local serial killer dubbed the "Blue Blood Killer" for his targeting of socialites. The film is a re-make of a 1991 short film of the same name, which was also directed by Braddock and starred Jones.

Usage examples of "curdled".

At his inner elbow, tanned skin curdled like birch bark in a fire, split and broke and bled and itched abominably.

The drab robe curdled into a loathsome purple hide that squirmed with life.

The musky snake odor of the vampire mingled with the curdled whale-meat stench of the giant horror, odors so rank Johan wanted to gag.

He was breathing hard anc his eyes were glazed, and his skin was the color of curdled milk.

Sidewalks had widened, stretched by the muscular fingers of money, and the pour of office workers had curdled into a cyclonic multitude, well-dressed, cologned, and silently pouting because the limousines double-parked along each and every curb were not idling obediently for it.

The sky that had been so clear in the morning was now a curdled mass of ominous clouds.

Smoke curdled up among the rough hacked rafters, leather flaps covered the windows.

I pressed my hands flat to it, while my blood and brain curdled, and a horse leaped under my breast.

He knelt down beside Cassandra, watching in horror as her flesh curdled to a milky white.