[-ING2.] That curdles.
1. trans. (In quots. = blood-curdling.)
1821. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., II. iii. Under the curdling winds.
1863. Whyte-Melville, Gladiators, I. 364. A curdling horror that weighed down the limbs like lead.
2. intr.
1699. Garth, Dispens., 15. A while his curdling Blood forgot to glide.
1886. R. C. Leslie, Sea-painters Log, 110. Here and there a wave breaks into curdling foam.