Curdle

Verb

 * 1)  To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
 * Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
 * 1)  To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold.  (metaphorically of blood)
 * 2) * 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
 * "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle, "beware of to-morrow!"
 * 1)  To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly
 * 2) * 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
 * It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.'

Derived terms

 * curdled

Thesaurus
beat up, cake, churn, clabber, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, colloid, colloidize, concrete, condense, congeal, cream, curd, emulsify, emulsionize, ferment, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, go off, incrassate, inspissate, jell, jellify, jelly, knot, lopper, lump, set, sour, spoil, thick, thicken, turn, whip

Etymology
Metathesis of crudle:, from an  crudan: via crud:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: пресичам се, съсирвам се
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Macedonian: засирува, згрутчува
 * Romanian:
 * Serbian: засирити, згрушавати


 * Bulgarian: коагулирам
 * Dutch: klonteren
 * Finnish: ,
 * Macedonian: засирува, згрутчува


 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: згрушавати, згуснути
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: saostaa ,
 * Macedonian: згрутчува


 * Russian: сворачиваться
 * Serbian: згрушавати

Anagrams

 * curled