Chloe, when she had milked her ewes, and sometimes Daphnis' goats as well, had great difficulty in making the milk curdle, for the gnats were very troublesome and if she flapped them away they stung her.
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Curdle
//ˈkɜː.dəl//
Synonyms for "curdle" (41 found)
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Closest matches (9)
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Related words (20)
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More general
6 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
109 translations across 36 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- mpiks verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- mpiksem verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Arabic
1 entries- تَخَثَّرَ verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Aromanian
2 entries- ncljeg verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- ncljeg verb (to coagulate)
Bulgarian
3 entries- коагулирам verb (to coagulate)
- пресичам се verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- съсирвам се verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Campidanese Sardinian
1 entries- callai verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Catalan
1 entries- quallar verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Czech
4 entries- srazit verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- srazit se verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- srážet verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- srážet se verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Dutch
3 entries- klonteren verb (to coagulate)
- klonteren verb (to cause to form clumps)
- stremmen verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Finnish
4 entries- hyydyttää verb (to coagulate)
- hyytyä verb (to coagulate)
- juoksettaa verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- juoksettua verb (to form or cause to form curds)
French
2 entries- cailler verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- coaguler verb (to coagulate)
Friulian
1 entries- caglâ verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Galician
3 entries- callar verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- callar verb (to coagulate)
- trallar verb (to coagulate)
German
1 entries- gerinnen verb (to coagulate)
Italian
1 entries- cagliare verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Latin
1 entries- concrescō verb (to coagulate)
Macedonian
4 entries- засирува verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- засирува verb (to coagulate)
- згрутчува verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- згрутчува verb (to coagulate)
Manx
3 entries- binjeanee verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- binjee verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- groo verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Māori
4 entries- kurukuruwhatu verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- pupuru verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- tepe verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- tetepe verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Norman
1 entries- cailli verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- осꙑрѣти verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Persian
4 entries- دلمه شدن verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- دلمه کردن verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- کلچانیدن verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- کلچیدن verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Polish
2 entries- zsiadać się verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- ścinać się verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Portuguese
2 entries- coagular verb (to coagulate)
- coalhar verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Romanian
2 entries- închega verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- închega verb (to coagulate)
Russian
4 entries- коагули́ровать verb (to coagulate)
- коагули́роваться verb (to coagulate)
- сверну́ть verb (to cause to form clumps)
- сверну́ться verb (to coagulate)
Sardinian
1 entries- cragare verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Scots
1 entries- yirn verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zasiriti verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- zgrušávati verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- zgrušávati verb (to coagulate)
- zgrušávati verb (to cause to form clumps)
Sicilian
2 entries- cagghiari verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- quagghiari verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Spanish
2 entries- coagular verb (to coagulate)
- cuajar verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Swedish
2 entries- skära verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- stelna verb (to coagulate)
Tamil
4 entries- கட்டு verb (to coagulate)
- துவை verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- தோய் verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- தோய் verb (to coagulate)
Telugu
2 entries- తోడుకొను verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- విరుగు verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ву́рдити verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- зву́рджувати verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- зву́рджуватися verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- зву́рдити verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Venetan
2 entries- cagiar verb (to form or cause to form curds)
- inconajar verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Welsh
1 entries- ceulo verb (to form or cause to form curds)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Yanni's screaming made Skura's blood curdle.
Source: tatoeba (9408826)
"Careful or that milk will curdle."
Source: tatoeba (11535863)
Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
Source: wiktionary
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