Too much heat will make the custard curdle.
Too much heat will curdle the custard.
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Wife guy, always a little mocking, curdled into the plainly pejorative.—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 9 June 2025 That those possibilities curdle into exploitation is a result of Elisabeth’s own making.—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025 This seeming paradise of capitalism soon curdles into a prison that strips the survivors of their humanity, yet at the same time Romero never forgets the humanity that the mass of zombies once had.—James Grebey, Time, 20 June 2025 There’s something striking about how Black Mirror, which primarily fixates on near-futuristic tech conceits as a lens through which to unpack human anxieties, has effectively spanned the length of our collective curdling relationship with technology.—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for curdle
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Etymology
metathetic variant of cruddle, crudle, frequentative of crud entry 2
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