Usually means: Milk solidifies into lumps, coagulates.
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  1. curdles: Merriam-Webster
  2. curdles: Collins English Dictionary
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  4. curdles: Wordnik
  5. curdles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. curdles: Wiktionary
  7. curdles: Dictionary.com
  8. curdles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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(Note: See curdle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (curdle)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk)
verb:  (ambitransitive) 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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