CURDLING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid

Synonyms:

clotting; coagulation; curdling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("curdling" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curdling"):

blood clotting; blood coagulation (a process in which liquid blood is changed into a semisolid mass (a blood clot))

thermocoagulation (congealing tissue by heat (as by electric current))

Derivation:

curdle (turn from a liquid to a solid mass)

curdle (go bad or sour)

curdle (turn into curds)

-ing form of the verb curdle