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Turn from a liquid to a solid mass
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curdling
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is curdled. vb. (present participle of curdle English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In cookery, curdling is the breaking of an emulsion or colloid into large parts of different composition through the physico-chemical processes of flocculation , creaming , and coalescence . Curdling is intentional and desirable in making cheese and tofu; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curdle \Cur"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curdled (-d'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Curdling (-dl[i^]ng).] To change into curd; to cause to coagulate. ``To curdle whites of eggs'' --Boyle. To congeal or thicken. My chill blood is curdled in my veins. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. turning into a solid mass; "I waited for her to materialize out of the clogging curdling crowd" n. the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid [syn: clotting , coagulation ]
Usage examples of curdling.
They were smothered in mud, hair hanging in soiled dreadlocks, spittle saturating their tufty beards, scratches bleeding, dribbles of red blood curdling with the mud.
Grant Kavanagh’s decimated body quivered amid the blood and piss curdling on the carpet as the soul it now hosted tried valiantly to repair the colossal tissue damage.
Nothing moved except for the unending water, glistening as it ran down walls, curdling across carpets and tile floors, dripping from furniture.
Out of these curdlings, as ifdisgorged by the ambient exhalation, I saw the emergence of three human faces that partook of the same nebulous matter, neither mist nor plasma.