Definition of "curdled" [curdled]

• Containing curds. (adjective)
• Coagulated (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of curdle. (verb)

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• "The word curdled on her tongue, but she said it anyway."
• "That name curdled on her tongue, so soon after her promise to herself, but Rand was apparently never anything as simple as "he" around the Prophet."
• "But when I clarified that the seven days were consecutive rather than over the course of a year, her expression curdled like old milk "."