(v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
(v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.
(v. t.) To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.
(v. t.) To congeal or thicken.
Example Sentences:
(1) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
(2) With both kinds of meals, cortisol evolutions were similar though peak values were higher with the curdled milk.
(3) The self-preservation act of leaving is curdled by a sense of desertion for letting the status quo stand.
(4) Page four 10 More blood-curdling clauses about the secrecy of the proceedings.
(5) The biological value of the soya curdle, obtained by the traditional technology, and of the cedar curdle was much lower than that of the initial products.
(6) It was found that significant sanitary failures are present during th whole goat cheese process, although the highest bacteria contamination occurred at the milking, curdling and filling stages.
(7) – wiped out Jack Colback with a blood-curdling tackle which ended his one time team-mate’s afternoon and was rather fortunate not to collect a slightly overdue yellow card.
(8) Preruminant calves bearing indwelling catheters in the hepatic artery, the portal and the hepatic veins were fed with two kinds of diets, a conventional curdled milk diet and a milk diet which was uncurdled in the abomasum.
(9) It has been difficult for Defoe ever since and all the excitement surrounding his signing, which Toronto had trumpeted as “ a bloody big deal ”, has curdled.
(10) The FA’s culture had narrowed and curdled through that decade, which ended in 96 people being unlawfully killed at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final which the governing body itself had commissioned at Hillsborough.
(11) At the end of Black's three-hour presentation, his opposite number at MI6, Mark Allen , commented drily that it all sounded "rather blood-curdling".
(12) Then pour the boiling cream on to the mix, whisking constantly to prevent curdling.
(13) In spontaneously curdled cheese coliform bacteria vanish during the third month of storage.
(14) Self-evidently, this was not Conservatism as anyone had previously understood it – but up until the poll tax saw boldness curdling into hubris, the party and its wider constituency were in almost full support.
(15) But, over a period of months, I was given some blood curdling learned opinions on what might happen to the Guardian – and me personally – if we persisted in our intended course of publishing.
(16) But the joke curdles really badly when the film tries to bring gay characters on screen to back it up.
(17) George Osborne has, however, given an added twist to the downward spiral, both by taking money out of the economy this year and by his blood-curdling warnings that cuts of at least 25% in Whitehall spending will have to be announced in next month's comprehensive spending review in order to tackle Britain's deficit.
(18) In comparison with a conventional curdled milk diet, the intake of uncurdled milk diet did not modify mean portal vein (47 to 49 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) or hepatic arterial (5.6 to 5.7 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) blood flows but did influence nycthemeral variations in portal blood flow rates, especially during the second part of the night.
(19) Lightly beat together the egg and 5 egg yolks, then add them to the mix, a little at a time, in order to prevent curdling.
(20) Some on the left were once drawn to blood-curdling eugenics for breeding away inherited disadvantage.