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blood-curdling

blood-curdling is the alternative form of bloodcurdling.

Meaning of bloodcurdling

Adjective

bloodcurdling (comparative more bloodcurdling, superlative most bloodcurdling)

  1. Causing great horror or terror.
    • Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a bloodcurdling scream.
    Synonyms:
    blood-chilling

Forms of blood-curdling

comparativemore blood-curdling
superlativemost blood-curdling

Questions about blood-curdling

What is blood-curdling the alternative form of?
Blood-curdling is the alternative form of bloodcurdling.

Words near blood-curdling in the dictionary

  1. blood-cells
  2. blood-chiller
  3. blood-chilling
  4. blood-curdler
  5. blood-curdlers
  6. blood-curdling
  7. blood-doll
  8. blood-dolls
  9. blood-eagle
  10. blood-eagled
  11. blood-eagles

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