Usually means: Making blood freeze with fear.
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  1. bloodcurdling: Merriam-Webster
  2. bloodcurdling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. bloodcurdling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bloodcurdling: Vocabulary.com
  5. bloodcurdling: Wordnik
  6. bloodcurdling: Wiktionary
  7. bloodcurdling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. bloodcurdling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. bloodcurdling: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. bloodcurdling: Dictionary.com
  11. bloodcurdling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. bloodcurdling: Rhymezone
  13. bloodcurdling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. bloodcurdling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. bloodcurdling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. bloodcurdling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ adjective:  Causing great horror or terror.

Similar:
hair-raising, alarming, nightmarish, blood-curdling, horrible, shocking, clawing, buttock-clenching, nerve-shredding, thunderstriking, more...

Opposite:
reassuring, comforting, calming, soothing

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Similar:
hair-raising, alarming, nightmarish, blood-curdling, horrible, shocking, clawing, buttock-clenching, nerve-shredding, thunderstriking, more...

Opposite:
reassuring, comforting, calming, soothing



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