单词 | to curdle the blood |
释义 | > as lemmasto curdle the blood a. transitive to curdle the blood: †to cause blood to thicken or clot (obsolete); (figurative) to afflict a person with strong negative emotion, esp. fear or dread; to terrify. Cf. blood-curdler n., blood-curdling adj. at blood n. Compounds 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > frighten [verb (transitive)] gastOE eisieOE fearc1000 scarec1175 fray14.. doubtc1315 fright1423 flightc1571 to curdle the blood1579 effray1588 hare1656 pavefy1656 frighten1666 sob1671 haze1677 funk1789 gliff1823 frecken1847 to scare a person silly1942 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. f. 4 Comes the breme winter..Drerily shooting his stormy darte, Which cruddles the blood, and pricks the harte. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida ii. sig. D2v O how impatience cramps my cracked veins, And cruddles thicke my blood, with boiling rage! 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια ii. vii. 73 Bloude is curdled by a moderate heate (for a burning heate would consume it, and a weake heat would not concoct it). 1675 R. Gower tr. F. de Le Boë New Idea Pract. Physic xxxiv. 313 When..Vapors, or Wind raisd by them, or Poison..either too much loosen or dissolve, or too much coagulate, or curdle the Blood. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. i. i. 3 An holy horror curdled all my blood. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham III. xxi. 358 Some awful and ghostly presence, which had power to curdle my blood into ice, and cramp my sinews into impotence. 1920 Daily Mail 28 Dec. 3/5 They feel the real thing in grim humour that can curdle the blood of even elder brothers. 2018 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 June 16 The Coalition is busy trying to curdle voters' blood with the horror of Labor's tax policies. < as lemmas |
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