Usually means: Milk turns solid when spoiled.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. curdle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. curdle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curdle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curdle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curdle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curdle, curdle: Wordnik
  7. curdle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curdle: Wiktionary
  9. curdle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curdle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curdle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curdle, curdle: Dictionary.com
  13. curdle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Curdle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Curdle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. curdle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. curdle: Rhymezone
  18. Curdle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. curdle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. curdle: Free Dictionary
  21. curdle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. curdle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curdle: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curdle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curdle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curdle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curdle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. curdle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See curdled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood)
verb:  (transitive) To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly.

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