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==English== |
==English== |
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===Alternative forms=== |
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* {{l|en|blood-curdling}} |
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===Adjective=== |
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# Causing great [[horror]] or [[terror]]. |
# Causing great [[horror]] or [[terror]]. |
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#: {{ux|en|Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a '''bloodcurdling''' scream.}} |
#: {{ux|en|Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a '''bloodcurdling''' scream.}} |
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#* {{RQ:Baum Wizard of Oz|chapter=Introduction|passage=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.}} |
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{{trans-top|Causing great horror or terror}} |
{{trans-top|Causing great horror or terror}} |
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* Dutch: {{t+|nl|bloedstollend}} |
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* Finnish: {{t|fi|vertahyytävä}} |
* Finnish: {{t|fi|vertahyytävä}} |
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* Georgian: {{t|ka|საშინელი}} |
* Georgian: {{t|ka|საშინელი}} |
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* German: {{t+|de|markerschütternd}}, {{t+|de|haarsträubend}}, {{t+|de|schaurig}}, {{t+|de|entsetzlich}}, {{t|de|Grauen erregend}}, {{t+|de|traumatisch}} |
* German: {{t+|de|markerschütternd}}, {{t+|de|haarsträubend}}, {{t+|de|schaurig}}, {{t+|de|entsetzlich}}, {{t|de|Grauen erregend}}, {{t+|de|traumatisch}} |
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* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|vérfagyasztó}} |
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|vérfagyasztó}} |
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* Irish: {{t|ga|coscrach}} |
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* Serbo-Croatian: {{t|sh|koji ledi krv u žilama}} |
* Serbo-Croatian: {{t|sh|koji ledi krv u žilama}} |
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* Turkish: {{t|tr|kan donduran}}, {{t|tr|[[insan|insanın]] [[kan|kanını]] [[dondurmak|donduran]]}} |
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Latest revision as of 18:51, 25 August 2024
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bloodcurdling (comparative more bloodcurdling, superlative most bloodcurdling)
- Causing great horror or terror.
- Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a bloodcurdling scream.
- 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:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Causing great horror or terror
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