bloodcurdling en · ADJ
Meanings
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Causing great horror or terror.
Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC:Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a bloodcurdling scream.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| blood-curdling | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more bloodcurdling | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most bloodcurdling | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
bloodcurdlingly · bloodcurdler
Synonyms
Translations (14)
fi vertahyytävä (Causing great horror or terror) · nl bloedstollend (Causing great horror or terror) · he מַקְפִּיא דָּם (Causing great horror or terror) · tr insanın kanını donduran (Causing great horror or terror) · sv hårresande (Causing great horror or terror) · tr kan donduran (Causing great horror or terror) · ka საშინელი (Causing great horror or terror) · fr glaçant (Causing great horror or terror) · hu vérfagyasztó (Causing great horror or terror) · sv blodisande (Causing great horror or terror) · ga coscrach (Causing great horror or terror) · sh koji ledi krv u žilama (Causing great horror or terror) · de markerschütternd (Causing great horror or terror) · pl mrożący krew w żyłach (Causing great horror or terror)