Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to curdle
Participle: curdled
Gerund: curdling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | curdle |
| you | curdle |
| he;she;it | curdles |
| we | curdle |
| you | curdle |
| they | curdle |
Perfect
| I | have curdled |
| you | have curdled |
| he;she;it | has curdled |
| we | have curdled |
| you | have curdled |
| they | have curdled |
Past
| I | curdled |
| you | curdled |
| he;she;it | curdled |
| we | curdled |
| you | curdled |
| they | curdled |
Pluperfect
| I | had curdled |
| you | had curdled |
| he;she;it | had curdled |
| we | had curdled |
| you | had curdled |
| they | had curdled |
Future
| I | will curdle |
| you | will curdle |
| he;she;it | will curdle |
| we | will curdle |
| you | will curdle |
| they | will curdle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have curdled |
| you | will have curdled |
| he;she;it | will have curdled |
| we | will have curdled |
| you | will have curdled |
| they | will have curdled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | curdle |
| you | curdle |
| he;she;it | curdle |
| we | curdle |
| you | curdle |
| they | curdle |
Perfect
| I | have curdled |
| you | have curdled |
| he;she;it | have curdled |
| we | have curdled |
| you | have curdled |
| they | have curdled |
Imperfect
| I | curdled |
| you | curdled |
| he;she;it | curdled |
| we | curdled |
| you | curdled |
| they | curdled |
Pluperfect
| I | had curdled |
| you | had curdled |
| he;she;it | had curdled |
| we | had curdled |
| you | had curdled |
| they | had curdled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would curdle |
| you | would curdle |
| he;she;it | would curdle |
| we | would curdle |
| you | would curdle |
| they | would curdle |
Perfect
| I | would have curdled |
| you | would have curdled |
| he;she;it | would have curdled |
| we | would have curdled |
| you | would have curdled |
| they | would have curdled |
Imperative
| you | curdle |
| we | Let's curdle |
| you | curdle |
Verbs conjugated like 'curdle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'curdle'
cuddle,
furdle,
hurdle,
nurdle,
buddle,
bundle,
burble,
burgle,
candle,
caudle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Metathesis of earlier dialectal cruddle, crudle, equivalent to curd + -le (frequentative suffix).
Sample Sentences
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Too much lemon will curdle the milk in your tea.
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"Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my very blood curdle, "beware of to-morrow!" [1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:]
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Trust in the science did not curdle at the same instance as trust in the tech conglomerates, but they are not so dissimilar when weighed against the hype of progress. [2023 December 28, Ross Barkan, “The zeitgeist is changing. A strange, romantic backlash to the tech era looms”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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It is enough,' said the agitated Mr. Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.' [1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:]