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curdle

verb
/ˈkɜː.dəl/UK/ˈkɝ.dəl/US

Etymology

Metathesis of earlier dialectal cruddle, crudle, equivalent to curd + -le (frequentative suffix).

  1. inherited from curd
  2. suffixed as curdle — “curd + le”

Definitions

  1. To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly

    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.

  2. To clot or coagulate

    To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)

    • "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle, "beware of to-morrow!"
    • Trust in the science did not curdle at the same instance as trust in the tech conglomerates, but they are not so dissimilar when weighed against the hype of progress.

  3. To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly.

    • 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.'

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at curdle. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01curdle02curds03curd04dahi05yogurt06curdling07curdled

A definitional loop anchored at curdle. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at curdle

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA