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cruddle

cruddle verb: to curdle.

Verb

cruddle (third-person singular simple present cruddles, present participle cruddling, simple past and past participle cruddled)

  1. (obsolete) To curdle.
    • See how thy blood cruddles at this.1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and...
    • To prevent the Milk from cruddling, ſome Sugar may be mixed with it1732, William Stephens, Dolӕus Upon the Cure of Gout by Milk-Diet

Forms of cruddle

third-person singular presentcruddles
present participlecruddling
past participlecruddled
pastcruddled

Words that rhyme with cruddle

Questions about cruddle

What does cruddle mean?
Cruddle means to curdle.
What part of speech is cruddle?
Cruddle is a verb.
What is the past tense of cruddle?
The past tense of cruddle is cruddled.

Words near cruddle in the dictionary

  1. cruddier
  2. cruddiest
  3. cruddily
  4. cruddiness
  5. crudding
  6. cruddle
  7. cruddled
  8. cruddles
  9. cruddling
  10. cruddy
  11. crude

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